If you ever read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird you would find that it is very similar to the Scottsboro trials. Lee used the trials beautifully when she wrote her book. She captured all the aspects and the very essence of the case in her story.
First, Harper Lee wrote about a black man being accused rape, furthermore he was a accused by a white woman. This is exactly how Scottsboro started; a group a black boys were on a train and when they got off two white women accused the boys of raping them. Harper Lee captured this scene perfectly, a reader could even say she copied it, but she went further in her writing. In the Scottsboro case the two women accused the black boys because they were trying to hide something. They decided to put
First, Harper Lee wrote about a black man being accused rape, furthermore he was a accused by a white woman. This is exactly how Scottsboro started; a group a black boys were on a train and when they got off two white women accused the boys of raping them. Harper Lee captured this scene perfectly, a reader could even say she copied it, but she went further in her writing. In the Scottsboro case the two women accused the black boys because they were trying to hide something. They decided to put