Scottsboro Boys

In the film Fruitvale station which a 2013 film, depicts the last few hours of a young African American male by the name of Oscar Grant. The films show Oscar as a loving father and a respectful person to his family. On the day of Oscar’s death he is shown helping numerous people in the community by helping a woman figure out a recipe to helping a woman go to the restroom during the New year’s Eve festivities in his town. The film represents Oscar as someone who isn’t the norm, he unlike most…

The accusation of rape upon nine Negro men in Scottsboro, Alabama was a racism-driven tragedy in American history. Two young women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused nine young Negro men of raping them on the train ride from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Paint Rock, Alabama. The rape accusation came about when Haywood Patterson’s hand was stepped on by a white on top of the train, leading to the blacks fighting the whites off of the train. The fight was triggered when one white said “This is a…

The facts of Miller v. Alabama include a fourteen-year old named Evan Miller who beat and robbed his next-door neighbor, Cole Cannon. The date of the incident, Miller and his co-defendant, Colby Smith, went to Cannon’s home in search of drugs. When they found no drugs, they stole baseball cards and returned to Miller’s home. A few hours later, both Miller and Smith returned to Cannon’s home. Cannon was unconscious due to drinking and smoking, at which point Miller took $300.00 and Cannon’s…

through Alabama with nine African American men, two white females, and seven white males. Throughout the ride, a fight broke out between the men. The two women on the train accused the African American men of sexually assaulting them. It was in Scottsboro that the men pleaded not guilty. On the day of the arraignment they were not appointed counsel. The judge announced he appointed all members of the bar for uses of the prosecutions. On the day of the trial, counsel still had not been appointed,…

Compare and contrast of Mayella, Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price In Alabama in 1931 nine African American boys were accused of raping two white women Ruby Bates and Victoria price. These women were young raised in a world of poverty, ridiculed for who they were. These girls were tired of being victims to a society whom were nothing but cruel to them so they decided to accuse someone else in order to put someone lower. Ruby Bates was a poor young millwork in Huntsville her mother was a…

I believe the year was 1967, somewhere close to that. I overheard conversations of travelling out of state. Our mother told us years later why we left Indiana. A judge ordered our father to leave the state, and if he didn’t, next time he will make sure prison will be my father’s destiny for the rest of his life. The rape case, apparently he indulged in a sexual encounter with a young woman that was mentally disabled to a degree. The fact he offered pocket change and placed it in her hand before…

Court case I will be sharing is State of Missouri V. Michael Sutton. The defendant Michael Sutton was convicted for forcible sodomy, felonious restraints and two counts of armed criminal action. Missouri Statue 566.060, 565.120, and 571.015. Michael Sutton was sentenced 67 years in DOC. On February 26th, 2008 A registered sex offender was accused of a sexual attack in O’Fallon, Missouri at an apartment complex. The defendant was Michael A. Sutton. The defendant was posing as a potential…

Avi Selk (2017), author of the article, White classmate avoids jail in coat-hanger assault of disabled black teenager, for the Washington Post on February 26, 2017, reported on an incident in Idaho involving an unnamed, black, disabled, teenage student who was sexually assaulted by three white students while in a high school locker room. One of the white students went to embrace the unnamed victim in a hug while the second took the opportunity to shove a hanger into his rectum, and the third…

The article that I chose was from the Boston Herald and was about a driver for an adult day care center who went to the police and told them that he had molested six elderly woman who were patients at the company that he drove for. Most of his victims had alzheimer's, which is a disease that affects your memory, but they had begun showing signs of anxiety when it came time to ride in the van. He explained that he would wait until he was alone in the van with each victim and then molest her.…

blacks, was the Scottsboro boys trial. This event was an extreme example of how the justice system treated blacks. On March 25, 1931, seven boys were hoboing on a train. When the train stopped, several white people reported that they got attacked on the train by black people. When the men were arrested two white women told the police that the black men had raped them. The case was first heard in Scottsboro Alabama. The trials were rushed, and all of the men…