Robert Powell

THE SCOTTSBORO CASE My paper is about the ScottsBoro case which was a case in which 9 male boys were arrested and accused for the rape of two white women. This connects with TKAM because in the book Tom Robinson was accused for rape and was given an unfair trial and was accused guilty. Also in the case the boys were unfairly tried and accused as guilty and in both the boys died and so did Tom. This part of my paper is to give you an overview of the case. It took place in…

The Scottsboro Trial was when two white girls accused 9 black teenagers of rape on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis (Kinding).This crime occurred on March 25,1931.The Salem Witch Trial occurred in 1692 and 1693 200 people were accused of witchcraft,witchcraft was very hysteria.It was started by a group of young girls,innocent people lives were taken.During,the Salem Witch Trial,people were excuted of being witches,Scottsboro Trial,9 innocent black teenagers were…

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…

(“JCI”). He has since been transferred to the Maryland Correctional Institution – Hagerstown. The original complaint named 11 defendants (Former JCI Warden John Wolfe, former JCI Case Manager George Allen, Lieutenant Barnes, Carol Jackson, Officer Robert Jordan, Lieutenant Ronel Legrand, Dr. Kevin J. McCamant, Dr. Jacqueline Moore, Sergeant Shekey Sellman, Captain Monique Shaw, and Betty Spriggs). On June 5, 2015, he amended his complaint naming ten additional defendants (former Commissioner of…

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 Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Charlie Williams, Andy Wright and Roy Wright. The Scottsboro boys did not do the crime they were convicted because the girls lied during their testimony. The Doctors showed in the reports that it was not rape. Also, the…

This particular case was about a crime that happened in the early nineties. An armored car was held up at gunpoint and twenty thousand dollars was taken from inside of it (Precedential, 2004). It was thought that the robbery itself was performed by William Robinson and Terrence Stewart. Byron Mitchell had waited in a car nearby as their getaway driver. By the time the trials occurred, Mitchell was the only one left alive save for a fourth man that was thought to have helped them case the area…

In the Scottsboro trials, there were nine African American boys who had been convicted of rape - Roy Wright who was the youngest; the oldest being Charles Weems; Clarence Norris; Andy Wright, Roy’s older brother; Ozie Powell; Olen Montgomery; Eugene Williams; Willie Roberson; and Haywood Patterson. The nine boys had gotten into a fight with a group of white boys, causing them to get the attention of the police who stopped the train at Paint Rock, Alabama. Two women had…

Comparing and Contrasting the Trials of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys In the 1930’s there was a lot of flaws in the judicial system. Black lives didn’t count back then. The jurors didn’t really care if there was enough evidence to prove their innocence; they would still be guilty. They would presume that a black man is guilty. The jurors were not willing to deal with a black charged with raping. Therefore, the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird have the same attitudes and…

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…

The Superiority of Whites over Blacks Back in the early 1930s in Southern Alabama everything was seen as black and white. The color white was definitely superior to the black color. Black people were highly motivated to work and produce for their future and families, but there was this racism; discrimination; and segregation against colored people that impeded their success. All of this factors that destroyed the lives of 9 young black teenagers. Only southerner whites had the opportunity to…