The Scottsboro Boys

Comparing and Contrasting the Trials of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Boys Racism and prejudiced views, although they still exist today, used to have huge negative impacts on the way people used to live back in the 1930’s. The Declaration of Independence stated that “all men are created equal.” Although that was said and implied, the right was still robbed from others because of the color of their skin. The novel written by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird perfectly portrays this in a…

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…

Rock. “Dozens of armed men rounded up [the] nine black youths and took them to jail” (The Scottsboro Case 1931). They were about to be charged with assault, until two white women were found hiding on the train wearing boy’s clothes. Even though there was no proof connecting the young black males to the women, the nine black males were charged with raping the women. A trial was then held in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. As the trail began, no hope for the young black males existed because all…

lot of historical events. The Great Depression was a huge influence on the novel. Harper Lee incorporated real life events in to her writing to make the novel impactful. The real life events used in the book were Jim Crow Laws, Mob Mentality, and Scottsboro Trails. As of today the Jim Crow laws are not really affecting the community because racism was demolished in the late 1900s. The problem is at one point of American history the Jim Crow laws controlled the south. They were like the…

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…

1930s, The Scottsboro Trials occurred and they portrayed…

remain impartial seems to far outweigh the other possible pros. The third judge that the Scottsboro case was brought…

In Scottsboro, Alabama, 1931, nine African American teenagers were arrested for a crime that all evidence points to did not happen (Weddell 453). They were accused of raping two white women, which at the time, was a crime that, if found guilty, automatically sentenced them to death. It was not until almost twenty years later, after the case had been tried multiple times at the Supreme Court, that they were all released on parole (Weddell 457). The Scottsboro Case had a significantly positive…

novel. (parenthetical references). It was not uncommon for many people of the 20th century to be racist. It was mostly viewed upon as profane by now, but most people were accustomed to it simply because that is how they were brought up. In the Scottsboro Boys’ Trials of 1930s this proved to be no different. This case is highly controversial and unlawful in retrospect, but at the time it was satisfying to the white community. Twelve young, unemployed African American teens hitched a ride on a…

9 African American boy’s lives were soon to be negatively changed as they boarded a train going to Memphis. On the outside, the Scottsboro case looks as though it was simply another sexual assault case. The gravity of the case due the race of the perpetrators was large; few seemed to fully comprehend this. Willie Roberson, aged 16, along with 8 other African American boys was accused of sexual assault by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The people of Alabama should conclude that William Roberson…