Additionally, in this trial, the implications of an elected versus appointed judge can be seen. Judge Horton did the right thing by overturning the conviction of Haywood Patterson, he did so at great risk. Horton, an elected judge, basically ended his career with this move. It is this situation that leads me to believe that judges should be appointed rather than elected. Not every judge, especially when put in a situation like this, would have the integrity to ignore the political ramifications of their decision.…
On March 25, 1931, With the Great Depression gripping the nation after the stock-market crash of 1929, people hopped freight trains to travel from one city to the next in search of work. A group of whites and a group of blacks who are ages 13 to 19 and are later called ‘Scottsboro boys’ got in a fight on a train. The scottsboro boys were defending themselves and they kicked the white group off in Jackson County. Then, two women on the train, who were trying to avoid arrest, falsely accused nine black youths of raping them so the Scottsboro boys are arrested and assault and rape charges are added against all nine boys after accusations are made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. It was an inflammatory allegation in the Jim-Crow South, where…
On March 25, 1931, nine black men, illegally riding a freight train and looking for work, were kicked off the rails at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on charges. Two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, were told by Scottsboro deputies to accuse the nine black men of raping them on board the train. The group of black teenagers had to fight against a false accusation. The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and eight were sentenced to death. n the first trial, the Scottsboro boys were denied their rights to an experienced and professional attorney.…
The Scottsboro trials were a horrific event in the USA’s history. The incident occurred when a group of black and white men got in a fight on a train while two other white women were on board. Most of the white men were thrown off the train during the trip. When the train arrived at Point Rock, Alabama nine black men, one white man, and the two women were arrested for riding the rails. The two women-who were known prostitutes-claimed that the black men raped them.…
When a group of nine unemployed African American men were traveling on the same train in search of jobs, they did not know that their lives would be changed forever. These young men, widely known as the “Scottsboro Boys”, left the train falsely accused of raping two white women. This tragic case became a significant symbol in American history, and an accurate representation of American injustice during the time period of the Great Depression. Although there was very weak evidence that supported a guilty verdict, the Scottsboro Boys were not given a fair trial. Due to societal circumstances at the time, fair trials between African Americans and whites in the United States were almost unheard of.…
White people were seen as superior over blacks. Racial discrimination in society, the jury, and people involved during 1930’s Alabama affected the Scottsboro Boys Trial. Alabama during the 1930’s was heavily immersed in racism. The trial was whites accusing blacks of sexual assault, something common in those days. In the PBS article it states,“ The women who had had sexual relations with some of the white men thrown off the train and fearing prosecution for their sexual activity with the white men agreed to testify against the black youths”(www.pbs.org).White people were very bias towards blacks.…
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the small town of Maycomb in Alabama around the times of the Great Depression. The whole story revolves around the trial of Tom Robinson, the racism that takes place in the town of Maycomb, and how it affects the citizens. The real reason why Bob and Atticus are so unalike is how they reacted to the Tom Robinson case, how racism truly portrays them, and how they act out in the streets than in their homes. They are different because they are trying to find the solution to their own problems in their own way. Atticus doesn’t stand for racism, he is one to say that blacks and whites are equal and should be treated like it, while Bob Ewell thinks otherwise.…
The Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro Trials was an affair done by nine African American males who allegedly raped two innocent white women, and they were tried for their act. The raping of the women, whose names were Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, took place on a train from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1931. A quote about this can be portrayed as, “Two dozen or so, mainly male-and mainly young-whites and blacks, rode the Southern Railroad's Chattanooga to Memphis freight on March 25, 1931” (Linder). The nine African American boys were called the “Scottsboro Boys” because they were arrested in Scottsboro, Tennessee.…
The novel to Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. It is set in the 1930s, in this time period the area had economical, racisim, and sexisim issues. This book was published in 1960, it is still read in taught across the nation. Students are able to make some modern connections to this novel and realize how the 1930s affect us now. The book is set to 1930s, in the 1930s racism was accepted by most of the white community.…
Discriminate- make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. The story follows Scout, the tomboy daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch who is given the task to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. During the time the story takes place, there were many racist and prejudice impressions, primarily about black people.…
The book To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in southern Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by a double consciousness, alternating between the Finch siblings. The events in the story take place in the early 1930’s, during the Great Depression. The cultural norm during this time allowed, and in some cases, encouraged discrimination based on someone’s social class, race, or gender. In this story Mayella Ewell, a poor white female who lives behind the dump, is often disregarded and forgotten.…
The trial proves that most of the community in the novel was racist, as were the majority of communities in the time period of the novel. (parenthetical references). It was not uncommon for many people of the 20th century to be racist. It was mostly viewed upon as profane by now, but most people were accustomed to it simply because that is how they were brought up. In the Scottsboro Boys’ Trials of 1930s this proved to be no different.…
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an intriguing book that I read over the summer. The setting takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. As slavery was abolished just about seventy years ago, it is certain that racism and prejudice against blacks would still be present at the time of this story. This story is fascinating considering that it is told through a child who is clearly clueless about what is happening; creating some form of dramatic irony. It demonstrates to the readers many major life lessons and encourages us to act accordingly.…
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in the 1930s in a fictional southern town in Alabama. Told through the eyes of 6 year old Scout Finch, you learn about her father, Atticus Finch, an attorney who tries to prove the innocence of a black man falsely accused of rape of a white girl; and about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. To Kill A Mockingbird includes themes such as racism, prejudice, and ____. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are all victims of prejudice, but Maycomb begins to change in a positive way from prejudice.…
In To Kill a Mockingbird there are lots of racial, gender, and religious, discrimination. Which is shown a multiple amount of times throughout the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee which takes place in Maycomb Alabama, where there is a lot of racial discrimination. But there is also some gender, and religious, discrimination.…