The Scottsboro Trial And Tom Robinson Trial

The Scottsboro trial and Tom Robinson trial are the same, in fact Tom Robinson’s case in To Kill a Mockingbird is based on the historic event, the Scottsboro trial. Of course the book was written after the Scottsboro case, the author had the idea of this because when she was younger she grew up during the infamous case. The Tom Robinson trial and Scottsboro trial had similar characters that portrayed one another. Mayella is portrayed as the two white women that were in the Scottsboro trial. The names of the women were Victoria Price and Ruby Bate. Both people were created to be shy, hostile, and emotions unstable. For example, in the text it states,
“A young girl walked to the witness stand. As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence