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treated unfairly. Many were falsely accused of rape, found guilty during the trials and were hanged. African Americans were often seen as easy targets, and one case was the Scottsboro Trials. Nine African American teenage boys were on a train to Chattanooga, and they got into trouble with some white boys, who then involved the police. Two women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, were also riding the train in disguise and did not want to get in trouble, so they made up a lie that the nine boys raped…

characters. However, the physical evidence in one trial is stronger than the other trial’s evidence. The events introducing the Scottsboro case began on March 25, 1931. A group of white and black young boys were riding the Southern Railroad’s Chattanooga to Memphis freight (Linder, “The Trial of the…

I entered high school with the motivation of involving myself in everything I possibly could. I wanted to make meaningful contributions to society, and I wanted to inspire others. So that is what I did. I am the founder and president of the Culture Club. I have been the president of Chinese Club for the past two years, and after successfully executing the role of the Public Relations Officer my sophomore year, I am the first female president of Spanish National Honors Society. Along with my…

“How would you feel?” “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything” is a quote by Mark Twain. As you know, everything started on the Southern Railroad freight train going to Chattanooga. On this freight train there were two white girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Then nine African American boys got on the train. Price and Bates accused the boys of raping them. Now they went to court to figure out the truth. The nine boys that have assault and rape charges are Olen…

Civil War Outcomes The major factors of key battles, resources, and leaders determined the outcome of the Civil War. Where the Civil War, a war between two groups within the same country, occurred in the United States from 1861-1865 (“American Civil War History” 1). Consisting of two groups, first, the southerners, as the Confederate States of America, who declared secession from the United States of America; and the northerners, going…

Patterson’s Trial The first trial of the nine innocent black teenager boys involved accusations of a gang rape by two white women. The group of nine black boys, and a group of white boys were on a Southern railroad freight run to find jobs between Chattanooga and Memphis. A white boy stepped on a black boy, Haywood Patterson’s, hand, which caused a drastic stone throwing fight between the two groups of boys which impacted the whole turn of events. The black group of boys successfully beat the…

Not all medical schools still allow this sickening procedure as a grade. Most schools have realized that the practise of taking an animal 's life is a morbid thing to allow. Johns Hopkins and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga are the last two schools that continue to use live animals to train students (Bruno 2015).After they are done practicing or experimenting on the animals they then kill them so they don 't have to suffer anymore. While these two schools continue…

Cain Demumbra Jennifer Wilson English 1010 27 October 2017 A Pleasant Trip to the Cumberland Plateau A plateau is a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side and is often cut by deep canyons. The Cumberland Plateau goes from Wayne County in Kentucky to Scott County in Tennessee. I will be writing primarily about areas in and around Cumberland County. The Cumberland Plateau includes parts of Wayne and McrCreary counties in Kentucky…

On the night of July 1, 2015 in the east Tennessee town of Maryville (Blount County) a CSX train carrying a toxic/flammable material, derailed and caught fire which resulted in the evacuation of many residents within a two mile radius of the accident scene. The train was traveling from Cincinnati, Ohio to Waycross, Georgia when it derailed. Around 5,000 residents were evacuated including nearby businesses. The ruptured tanker car was carrying 24,000 gallons of acrylonitrile which is a colorless,…

1. Abraham Lincoln, born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky, is most known for being the sixteenth president of the United States. The time in which he was president was a hard time in American History, The Civil War. Before Lincoln had become president, he served as a legislator in Illinois; he also ran for U.S. Senate but he lost to Stephen Douglas. It was a memorable time in history because Lincoln went on to become the very first Republican president in the United States. Not only…