The Star Spangled Banner says “Liberty and Justice for All “ but there cops getting off with killing innocent African Americans and not being held accountable for their actions . In the Star Spangled Banner that line is not always true and there are real life examples. In books we see the same injustice as we see in our everyday life’s, and in this paper, it will bring this issue to light with hard hitting evidence that not everything is so equal and it will explain the connections between two different situations but the same injustice within the black community. The Scottsboro Boys case is about nine young boys who were riding the rails looking for work, but they were illegally riding the trains. These nine boys, Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell,
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Some of the things that they said in there letters home from jail state how they felt about the conviction from Haywood Patterson he says “ I’d rather die than spend another day in jail for something I didn’t do “, from Ozie Powell he says “ Momma ain’t but one thing I want to tell you right now. Don’t let Sam Leibowitz have anything else to do with my case “ ( PBS ). The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and sentenced to death, and the youngest Leroy Wright at age of 13 got life imprisonment ( …show more content…
Also this case sparked mass defense movement The CP brought in their legal arm, the International Labor Defense (ILD) to represent the nine. In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird there was only one man who was accused and a one white man and this case was not overturned by anyone even Tom Robinson did not rape the young white women because she said that he held her down with his left hand but Tom hurt his arm in an accident that happened years ago. Also Tom Robinson wasn’t put death on row, but he was killed while he was on jail but trying to escape. Also in the book Tom Robinson did not ride a train when it happed. The Scottsboro boys case case was take all the way to the United States Supreme Court in 1937, and the lives of the nine were saved, though it was almost twenty years before the last defendant was freed from prison. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys is perhaps one of the proudest moments of.American radicalism, in which a mass movement of blacks and whites led by Communists and radicals ( blackpast.org ). In To Kill a Mocking Bird “ Bob Ewell seeks revenge on Atticus, who embarrassed him during the trial. On the night of the Halloween pageant, Ewell attacks Jem and Scout, intending
Some of the things that they said in there letters home from jail state how they felt about the conviction from Haywood Patterson he says “ I’d rather die than spend another day in jail for something I didn’t do “, from Ozie Powell he says “ Momma ain’t but one thing I want to tell you right now. Don’t let Sam Leibowitz have anything else to do with my case “ ( PBS ). The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and sentenced to death, and the youngest Leroy Wright at age of 13 got life imprisonment ( …show more content…
Also this case sparked mass defense movement The CP brought in their legal arm, the International Labor Defense (ILD) to represent the nine. In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird there was only one man who was accused and a one white man and this case was not overturned by anyone even Tom Robinson did not rape the young white women because she said that he held her down with his left hand but Tom hurt his arm in an accident that happened years ago. Also Tom Robinson wasn’t put death on row, but he was killed while he was on jail but trying to escape. Also in the book Tom Robinson did not ride a train when it happed. The Scottsboro boys case case was take all the way to the United States Supreme Court in 1937, and the lives of the nine were saved, though it was almost twenty years before the last defendant was freed from prison. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys is perhaps one of the proudest moments of.American radicalism, in which a mass movement of blacks and whites led by Communists and radicals ( blackpast.org ). In To Kill a Mocking Bird “ Bob Ewell seeks revenge on Atticus, who embarrassed him during the trial. On the night of the Halloween pageant, Ewell attacks Jem and Scout, intending