I remember when the Scottsboro trial, it all started in 1831 during the Great Depression when nine boys were accused of rape. At the time not all nine boys knew each other nor were they together. These boys, Haywood Patterson (18),Charlie Weems (20), Ozie Powell (16), Clarence Norris (19), Olem Montgomery (17),Willie Roberson (17), Eugene Williams(13), Andrew (18) and Leroy Wright (12) illegally hopped on a train looking for work, they were taken off the train in Scottsboro where they were given a minor charge. After they were charged the deputies saw two white ladies Ruby Bates (17) and Victoria Price (21) and pressured them into accusing the nine innocent black boys of raping them, taking them to court (blackpast.org). When the court was
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I didn't want to go to trial it was never my intention getting on that train i was just trying to look for work, when i got to trial i “was always more vague about what had happened on the train… Price did the talking” (pbs.org) a few month later i went back to apologise to these boys “I spoke to a crowd of five thousand in Baltimore: "I want to tell you that the Scottsboro boys were framed by the bosses of the south and two girls. I was one of the girls and I want you to know that I am sorry I said what I did at the first trial, but I was forced to say it. Those boys did not attack me and I want to tell you all right here now that I am sorry that I caused them all this trouble for two years, and now I am willing to join hands with black and white to get them free." (psb.org) Although i did this in front of five thousand people the court was still an all white jury no blacks were allowed to be apart of it making the decisions bias and an unfair trial so even though i did confessed they still found a way to get charged anyway because of the supposed “fight” that happened on the train. (blackpast.org). These boys were innocent, that trial should've never happened and the people that should of been punished where the white men, …show more content…
The last known survivor of the scottsboro boy Norris fled North after his parole in 1947 and “granted a full pardon by the governor of Alabama in 1976” (school.eb.com). Therefore the trial may of been an unfair one, but they fought and i am happy they did they may of been black and the odds were against them but they help change history giving more people in the black community a better
I didn't want to go to trial it was never my intention getting on that train i was just trying to look for work, when i got to trial i “was always more vague about what had happened on the train… Price did the talking” (pbs.org) a few month later i went back to apologise to these boys “I spoke to a crowd of five thousand in Baltimore: "I want to tell you that the Scottsboro boys were framed by the bosses of the south and two girls. I was one of the girls and I want you to know that I am sorry I said what I did at the first trial, but I was forced to say it. Those boys did not attack me and I want to tell you all right here now that I am sorry that I caused them all this trouble for two years, and now I am willing to join hands with black and white to get them free." (psb.org) Although i did this in front of five thousand people the court was still an all white jury no blacks were allowed to be apart of it making the decisions bias and an unfair trial so even though i did confessed they still found a way to get charged anyway because of the supposed “fight” that happened on the train. (blackpast.org). These boys were innocent, that trial should've never happened and the people that should of been punished where the white men, …show more content…
The last known survivor of the scottsboro boy Norris fled North after his parole in 1947 and “granted a full pardon by the governor of Alabama in 1976” (school.eb.com). Therefore the trial may of been an unfair one, but they fought and i am happy they did they may of been black and the odds were against them but they help change history giving more people in the black community a better