Scottsboro Boys

today to asses the case of the “Scottsboro Boys.” These clients are undoubtedly innocent, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is very crucial for the Supreme Court to hear this case, for it is very unconstitutional and all the convicted deserve a fair trial. The prosecution had interesting evidence pointing towards the guilty verdict. On March 25, 1931 nine black boys were riding a freight train from Chattanooga to Hunstville. Among those boys were four young…

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 white group of boys and threw them off the…

jail after an accusation of a false crime. The Scottsboro boys were nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The case gained the attention of many people, and it had taken many years for it to be resolved. The Scottsboro case is considered a huge injustice of the 1930’s that has even made an effect in 2013. On March 25, 1931, on a train coming from Chattanooga, Tennessee, a group of black and white boys had gotten into a fight. During the time,…

were kicked off the rails at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on charges. Two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, were told by Scottsboro deputies to accuse the nine black men of raping them on board the train. The group of black teenagers had to fight against a false accusation. The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and eight were sentenced to death. n the first trial, the Scottsboro boys were denied their…

American teenagers. The nine young men, dubbed as the Scottsboro boys, had been accused of raping two white women on a train they were illegally traveling on. The community was furious with the action these nine boys had performed, again it was a white woman’s word which held significantly more weight than nine black boys. The boys take the stand one by one, and the audience is left awestruck. How could the jury and community not see that these boys were incapable of the act they were accused…

Mockingbird and the famous trials of the “Scottsboro Boys”. In the Scottsboro trials, nine black boys were accused and found guilty of raping two white women. Similarities are proven to be seen in both trials between the attitudes and backgrounds of the 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…

you feel if you if you were wrongly accused of a crime because a trait that you were born with? This was the situation during the Scottsboro Case. On March 25, 1931, nine African-American teenagers, including 19 year old Clarence Norris, were hoboing on a freight train from Chattanooga, Tennessee to look for work. The teenagers were taken off the train near Scottsboro, Alabama by local deputies and were accused of raping two white women Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. It is clear that…

On the next stop, the nine African-American teenagers are arrested for assault and rape. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, prostitutes, were the two white women who accuse the boys of rape, all of them go to nearby Scottsboro. While the women are examined the boys are in a holding cell. In a three-day period eight of the nine boys are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, while the ninth, only thirteen is sentenced to life…

The Scottsboro Case A case that was unfair to the defendants and to the society of mankind. The Scottsboro Case first started on March 25,1931 9 young black men were wrongly accused. During this time black men were allowed to have jobs, but whites were still harboring racial feelings towards blacks. The 9 young black men oldest 19 and youngest 13 were on the way to find work in Alabama as they were on the train a fight broke out between them with the whites. As the train began to slow the…

national anthem. There was also The Scottsboro Trials. The Scottsboro trials had all started on a railroad train on March 25th, 1931. Taking place in Alabama, nine African American boys were charged with rape and arrested. This event has such a significant impact that one author, Harper Lee, decided to create a book based off of these trials. In her book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee had altered some aspects as well as kept the information of the Scottsboro trials, such as physical…