There are many similarities between the Scottsboro trial and the trial of Tom Robinson in the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials‚ convictions‚ reversals‚ and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern railroad freight run on March 25‚ 1931” (Linder 1). The author of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee‚ was a young girl during the Scottsboro trial and based the
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Harper Lee used the Tom Robinson character to prove the injustice of the Scottsboro Trail. I: Intro II: About Tom Robinson’s case III: About the Scottsboro case The Scottsboro Boys case was among the most important in the history. It was taken to the united states Supreme Court twice. IV: About the Similarities The two trials share similarities in their setting‚ characters‚ and outcomes. The story of the Scottsboro boys is very similar to the case of Tom Robinson in the story To Kill
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back to death row. This became reality to nine young boys on March 25‚ 1931. When the Scottsboro boys were convicted‚ everyone involved was extremely happy. Yet when the boys persuaded the judges to have retrial after retrial‚ it became a mess. Despite the conflicting testimonies of the Scottsboro boys‚ Victoria Price‚ and Ruby Bates‚ the court was able to discern the truth and deliver justice to everyone surrounding the trial. The Scottsboro trials were important because the sixth and fourteenth
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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 Scottsboro Boys All of us know the feeling of getting blamed for something we haven ’t done. With that in mind try imaging getting put in jail for years for a crime you didn’t commit. That was the case for nine black men in Alabama in the year 1931.There was so much physical evidence proving that the nine boys were innocent‚ however the extreme racism Alabama government officials had towards African Americans is arguably the biggest factor that lead to this injustice
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Bob Radley and Tom Robinson come from different backgrounds. They both face similar stories of prejudice and unfair judgements. Boo and Tom face some of the same hardships throughout the novel. They are both good men who were put down because they were considered “different” than others in the town. Their actions were very much criticize. Boo Radley was punished by his father as a teenager‚ so if was put on lock down‚ as he
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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 why they are suffering this same tragedy. These defendants have many similarities in common‚ one obvious thing is that
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being denied to innocent black men‚ an issue that has raised awareness for far to long. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Nelle Harper Lee‚ was written in 1960. In this novel‚ the man falsely accused of raping a white woman has no hope. In the 1930’s Scottsboro boys trials‚ which took place just decades before the novel was written‚ a group of black men were also falsely accused of raping white women. Although there have been many great movements to promote equality and integration since the 1900s‚ the bias
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Movement; The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys. North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds‚ 2008. Uschan‚ Michael V. Landmark Events in American History; The Scottsboro Case. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library‚ 2004. Linder‚ Douglas O. Famous American Trials. 1999. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_hrrep.html. Johnson‚ Claudia D. Scottsboro Trial. 1994. The Greenwood Publishing‚ Inc. http:// library.thinkquest.org/12111/Scottsboro/Scottsboro.html. Many Americans
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The Scottsboro Boys Video Notes What happened? Nine black teenage boys from Scottsboro‚ Alabama were accused of raping two white women. The nine black teenagers were on a train and some of the black teens fought with several white guys. The train was stopped when the conductor found out a fight broke out‚ and when nine black teenage boys and two white women (Ruby Bates and Victoria Price) got off the train‚ Ruby Bates and Victoria Price claimed that the black males raped them. At the time
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