To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Boys Imagine sitting in a court room as a black man. You are put on trial for something you never would have even though about doing. You look around at an all-white jury. You have little hope of getting out of this situation being ruled innocent‚ but you don’t give up. This is exactly what happens with the Scottsboro Boys. The Scottsboro Boys trial of the 1930’s parallels many of the events in Harper Lee’s Novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The Scottsboro
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He died there of tuberculosis in 1937. Scholars believe that the plot may have also been influenced by the notorious case of the Scottsboro Boys‚ in which nine black men were convicted of raping two white women on very poor evidence. However‚ in 2005 Lee stated that she had in mind something less sensational‚ although the Scottsboro case served "the same purpose" to display Southern prejudices. Emmett Till‚ a black teenager who was murdered for flirting with a white woman in Mississippi
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about the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” she had a very real case to look to for inspiration. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys was a world renowned case in the 1930’s in which nine black youths were accused of raping to white girls in Alabama. Lee’s novel took this case and created the fictional case of Tom Robinson‚ a black man accused of raping a lower class white girl in a small town in Alabama during the Depression-era. The Scottsboro trials were the main source of inspiration
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The Scottsboro Boys case was a controversial case which took place in 1931‚ wherein nine boys were accused of raping two white girls while on a freight train heading to Memphis‚ Tennessee from Chattanoogaon‚ on March 25‚ 1931. It was one of the most important cases in American history that had much to do with racism in the South. This case grew quickly partly because of a growing American Communists movement taking place during that time. The party thought that they could publicize their ideas of
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“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee inspired by the Scottsboro Boys The trial of the Scottsboro Boys is one of the most significant moments in American history. Back in 1931 a group of nine black teenage boys‚ also named Scottsboro Boys‚ were accused of raping two white women in Alabama. A fight broke out in a train and a group of white men reported they had been attacked by black teenagers. The train stopped in Scottsboro‚ Alabama‚ where the black boys were arrested by a local sheriff after
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courtroom roles can be of whatever race. The influence upon Harper Lee to write her novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ was based on real life events. These include the Scottsboro Trials‚ expectations upon women in the South‚ and Jim Crow Laws. The first real world event that motivated Lee to write her novel is the Scottsboro
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Amber Jazwiecki Mr. Rosenbaum P-3 February 21‚ 2011 English Research To Kill a Mockingbird 1. The Scottsboro Trials are about when 9 black young men were arrested for assault and later raping two white women on a train coming from Paint Rock‚ Alabama. Later the court found all nine guilty and they were sentenced to death. A few years later the public found out that the white women were lying but only one of the men were retried and that one man was sentenced to life in prison for not
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The Scottsboro Trial and the trial of Tom Robinson are almost identical in the forms of bias shown and the accusers that were persecuted. The bias is obvious and is shown throughout both cases‚ which took place in the same time period. Common parallels are seen through the time period that both trials have taken place in and those who were persecuted and why they were persecuted in the first place. The thought of "All blacks were liars‚ and all blacks are wrongdoers‚" was a major part of all of these
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The Scottsboro Trials were among the most infamous episodes of legal injustice in the Jim Crow South. The events that culminated in the trials began in the early spring of 1931‚ when nine young black men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train. The cases were tried and appealed in Alabama and twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite evidence that exonerated the accused and even a retraction by one of the accusers‚ the state pursued the case and all-white juries delivered
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The novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ has been critically praised as a landmark work and important piece of American literature dealing with such fundamental issues of society. The 1962 movie adaption has received similar proclamations of genius storytelling. But when compared side by side‚ does the movie truly stand up to the literary masterpiece and accurately present the themes and lesson intended by the author? After examining the restrictions on character and plot development by formatting‚ the
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