Racism's Role In The Scottsboro Trial

The Similarities between The scottsboro case and To Kill a Mockingbird From books to real life cases, one can see the American system of injustice towards the blacks of America and its lopsided juries. A system of which if you’re born of the wrong skin, you are judged with no crime being committed. A country where when you have a dark complexion, you are guilty until proven innocent. In To Kill a Mockingbird and Scottsboro boys, we meet different figures who all in common, are prejudice, racist, and ignorant. Even so, we still meet people who stand for what is right, especially since the evidence points towards their innocence.

Scottsboro Trial Two young women is all it takes to create one of the most tragic epoch's of African-American history after the abolishment of slavery. When Victoria Price, and Ruby Bates decide to ride the rails to look for some incentive in their lives, they witness an opportunity to ruin nine young black boy's life. A fight broke out after a gang of white boys agitated, and tried to force a gang of black boys to jump off a train.

During the year of 1857 the Dred Scott case was investigated through the Supreme Court of the United States. The relationship between the North and South became chaotic. The North understood the necessity of slavery for the Southern states because of the circumstances involving farming, acres of land, and beliefs; however, the North did not have the same need.   The Supreme Court's ruling of African Americans denied them U.S. citizenship as well as the right of freedom because of their classification as slaves.

Scottsboro Trials Racism played a part in the Scottsboro trial. According to Jack Schafer, racism is the intentional abuse of social custom and legislative power that prevents a race to make decision. Racism can happens for many reasons one is that people push other races down to gain higher status (Rutledge). Another reason people would discriminate against other races is to keep power over those people (Schafer). From the Scottsboro trails the reader can see both of these reasons.

There are many racist caucasian people that serve in juries. They believe that African Americans should be in a position under them so they would do whatever they could to keep them down. During the Scottsboro Trials nine African American men were arrested for something that they did not do. They were accused of raping two white girls

In 1931, a group of African-American boys were tried and convicted of a crime that none of them had committed. The nine young, black males had been riding the rails looking for work when a fight broke out between them and a group of white boys. The youths were arrested for vagrancy then tried for the false accusation of rape. The case of the Scottsboro Boys showed the true minority injustice of the South do to the Jim Crow Laws.

Before the Scottsboro trials blacks and whites have never really agreed on anything. The Scottsboro trials were heard of by everyone and caught the eye of the communist party. The communists had hired a very good defense attorney, his name was Samuel Leibowitz. The communist party hired Leibowitz because he was famously known for winning most of his cases, and just for being a good attorney. Leibowitz didn't like losing his cases and would do the most he possibly could to win.

Scottsboro Trial Vs To Kill a Mockingbird Trial “To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white.” This quotation is from Atticus Finch’s closing argument in To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus is trying to express how this case is simple and there is no way that Tom Robinson is guilty.

In the early 1930s, a group of African American boys were accused of raping two women aboard a train in southern Alabama being called the “Scottsboro Boys.” The boys were not given a fair trial because of the racial injustice in the south during this time. The trial was even brought to the supreme court which would help overturn the verdicts in favor of the boys. This trial was extremely significant because it really brought to light the racial injustice and inequality present during this time, especially in the legal system, as well as being a kind of spark for the civil rights movement in America.

During the nine boys testimonials six of the boys denied the rapee entirely, but the other three accused claimed that the other six boys were the ones who raped the two white

Scottsboro Racism Paragraph The Scottsboro trials were a long horrific eighteen-year-long trial about eight black boys in Scottsboro, Alabama. According to Anderson in the video lecture “Scottsboro Boys” a large group of people had gotten on a train to find work when a large fight broke out on the train. The fight was between eight black men and a few white men, the train stopped in Scottsboro when two white women got off the train and accused the eight black men of rape. The eight boys were brought into court and trialed. There were multiple cases of racism in the Scottsboro trials, one included that all the boys were trialed together and in only one day.

The whole case against the boys is completely false. The two women involved in this case created this accusation to avoid further trouble with the law authorities as a cover, as both of these women had been arrested on counts of vagrancy and various sexual misconduct. The accusers quite literally admitted to false accusations, meaning only one thing: The Scottsboro Boys are innocent. In addition, even if there was any doubt of the testimonies being fake, there is evidence against the statements that disprove their validity. One example of the conflicting testimonies was the varying accounts of the number of assailants.

The women were caught lying during trial. Ruby Bates confessed that the rape

The two women knew if they got caught they would be charged with an international crime, so they said all nine of the boys raped them. The

Injustice The Scottsboro Case shed light on the racial practices expressed in law that made a great impact on the legal system today. The actual victims of the Case did not receive a fair trial due to the color of their skin. The ones who played the victims planned the crime, and their stories made no sense. But like many of the trials during the time it wasn’t based on the actual evidence that was found,or even the defendants ' stories.