The Scottsboro Boys

novel. Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird accuses Tom Robinson, an innocent black man, of rape after she invited him into her house to help her break up a large piece of furniture. While, Ruby Bates, a poor white woman, accused the innocent Scottsboro Boys of group rape after she was hoboing on a freight train. Through accusations of rape and group rape, the testimony of Ruby Bates relates to that of Mayella Ewell. Because of the fear that her father’s beatings will…

accused, but because they were black, the jury and the judge would believe the white women. A specific case is the Scottsboro boys, there was 9 black young men riding a train in Alabama, and they were…

been attacked by a group of black teenagers. The train stopped in Paint Rock, Alabama and arrested the black Americans. Along with the nine African Americans, two white women accused the black Americans of rape. The first case was first heard in Scottsboro, Alabama, in three rushed trials, in which the defendants received poor legal representation. To fairly…

are not. Racism in the United States of America has existed since the first settlers moved there from Europe in the 1500s. Racism still exists in modern America as of 2016, 500 years later. In the 1930s, there were a series of trials known as the Scottsboro Trials where 9 young black men were convicted of raping two women. Author Harper Lee wrote about a trial known as the Tom Robinson case in her book To Kill a Mockingbird; Tom Robinson was a black man who was charged with the rape…

2. The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank’s diary is the most famous account of the Holocaust. Her family was forced into hiding when the Holocaust began. The Gestapo finally arrested Anne and her family on August 4, 1944. Anne Frank’s diary is important because it is a first-hand account of what Jews went through in Germany during World War 2. Her diary describes growing up during the Holocaust. It is a true account of a life in hiding. The diary of Anne Frank is important because it is a window…

Innocent Conviction The Scottsboro Boys Trial was one of the most controversial and shocking trials in American history.The Scottsboro Boys Trial was about nine African American boys who were accused for the sexual assault of two white young women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. The trial ended with the nine boys sentenced to prison and death.This trial showed how unjustly African Americans were treated. Though this wasn’t fair, it was how society ran back then. White people were seen as…

The way that the Scottsboro trials were handled by the Alabama court system, and the repeated wrongful convictions of the defendants in the face of exonerating evidence, is a prime manifestation of the way that racism worked in the South of the Jim Crow era. Racism is possibly the biggest factor behind the accusation of rape and the mishandling of the case. At the same time however, class differences also provided a motive for some of the actions of the people involved in the case. Ruby Bates…

all. The combination of gender and race were key factors in the initiation of the Scottsboro case, with the economy and culture of the times exacerbating it. The actions of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates during the Scottsboro incident were motivated by fear and perpetuated by gender and race. During the trials, the stereotypes commonly and solidly rooted in Alabama culture heavily influenced the jury. The Scottsboro trials reflected the economy and culture of the time, ultimately centering on the…

In 1931, in Scottsboro Alabama, nine African-American boys with the ages from 12 to 20 were detained and wrongly accused of both rape and assault of two white women. A lynch mob of almost hundreds of white people assembled in the perimeters of the jail, causing the National Guard to interfere. Over the next decade, the Scottsboro Boys case as it became notorious of, was a nationwide icon of legal injustice in the segregated South, with no fair trial, consisted of an all-white jury that led to…

Racial violence and prejudice can be seen when looking at the Scottsboro Boys case, the murder of Emmett Till, the wrongful conviction of Tom Robinson, and a letter written by Eleanor Roosevelt addressing the issues of lynching. In the Scottsboro Boys case, nine boys were convicted of a crime they did…