Black Men: Accused Or Unfair?

Black Men would be proven innocent but they would still imprison them or worse, sentenced them to death. A witness said at court that he says Johnson holding a leather strap, Johnson said that he doesn't have one. Johnson had many witnesses in court that prove him innocent but Johnson was put in a court with no African Americans as his juries therefore he was killed(Grimsley). Johnson was proven innocent, but the white juries still had the nerve to kill him even if he didn't rape the girl; it was really unfair because he never raped the girl. The child never raped her, he decided to take the blame and go 90 days to a facility in Chico. He knew that his choice was the best thing to do since all of the juries he was with all were Caucasian(Myers). Back then it never mattered how old you were; you would still get accused of raping a white woman and you couldn't deny it because the juries were white. …show more content…
Tom Robinson, the young man never did rape her, but we know who did do it (Lee 271). Tom was accused of raping her just because he was black, but he never did do it because Atticus Finch proved to everyone in the courtroom, he was innocent, but since he was facing a white jury in the 1800s the black man's voice would never win against a white man; Tom faced prison and died. These cases are only a few of the cases of black men proven innocent but there is many other cases that the court may never know how many have been falsely accused, sentenced to death, of sent to