The historical Scottsboro Trial and the fictional trial of Tom Robinson in the book To Kill a Mockingbird have striking similarities that may or may not be coincidence. Both trials took place in Alabama during the same era of relentless prejudice and bias‚ which is a major factor in each of these cases. In both cases‚ the accusers were white women and the persecutors were black men; therefore the black men were immediately considered liars and “wrongdoers”‚ unlike the word of the white women‚ which
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about two admirable stories one was non-realistic and the other was realistic(true story). They are very similar to each other‚ the first one is a novel called To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee about a man named Tom Robinson who was on trial for being accused of raping a white woman. The second story was a documentary called Scottsboro: An American Tragedy about nine men accused the same crime. Racism is the main point in both of these devastating stories. I believe that racism is the reason
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a classic novel written by Harper Lee‚ is focused on racism that takes place in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the 1930s‚ where African Americans were segregated by white men. Harper Lee said that the Scottsboro trial‚ which was a trial that started because of discrimination‚ inspired her on writing To Kill a Mockingbird. Despite the differences between the Scottsboro Boys and To Kill a Mockingbird‚ both of them had an impact on the racial implications and laws of the south. The
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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
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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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Today‚ all trials are judged fairly‚ and all 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 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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Tom Robinson vs Scottsboro Boys The book To Kill a Mockingbird symbolizes how a community of decent human beings can be corrupted by simple commonplace stereotypes within society‚ the Scottsboro trial is a real life example of how even in the 20th century individuals were scapegoats of this malicious prejudice. This type of prejudice united the most ignorant Americans into the absurd trail of thought that African Americans were‚ in some way‚ inferior to even the most uneducated Caucasian due to
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