The Scottsboro Case: The Most Famous Rape Case

Introduction
Two promiscuous females named Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, dressed in overalls hoboed across the state of Alabama when they had accused nine boys of rape in order to avoid the minor accusations, which they would have been charged with if the posse at Paint Rock had caught them. The newspaper has done no different as the allegations in the afternoon of the arrest had already turned to incontestable facts. A local newspaper, Jackson County Sentinel, had the front bold headlines stating “Nine Negro Men Rape 2 White Girls; Threw White Boy from Fright Train and Help White Girls and One Prisoner Until Captured by Posse (Apel, 2004)”. Two white women scared of being charged with vagrancy, and taking a minor across the state caused
The case had been considered the most famous rape case of the century, as it had been one of the longest occurring case for individuals who were blatantly innocent. According to legal procedure in a case which is as serious as the current situation, it is necessary to allow time to elapse before initiating and trying the accused between indictment and trial, but as many wanted, they had gotten their speedy trial through increased public pressure (Gist, 1968). This shows how much of an impact society has on as the case was sped up to two weeks from the first accusation to the beginning of the trial. The reason in which the trial had remained on the front pages of American and foreign newspapers and became so well known was due to the great number of repercussions and protests in Germany, Moscow and America. The Scottsboro trial had sparked several great changes and impacted future trials as black press had taken the lead in exposing false rape accusations, no black jury was a reason for re-trial, and the right to a defence council (Freedman, 2013). The basic rules, which must be instilled in society existed, but was not used in trials for the people of colour. The case challenged the deep association of black men being a sexual threat and the expectation that as black men they would be killed when charged with rape. An example of such cases is Jesse Hullins, who had been convicted of rape of a white woman and sentenced to death (Freedman, 2013). The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) had raised funds to aid in the trial of Jesse who had claimed to have a consensual relationship with her. The verdict had been re-evaluated due to the reasoning that there were no blacks on the jury. NAACP had raised