Similarities Between Mississippi Trial And To Kill A Mockingbird

I am going to compare Tom and Till, for their murders and what had happen to them and the same reasons. They were both killed in the south after the civil war. They were also black. Tom was killed because they thought they he had raped they white women.

We can first start with the people of the trial, Walter Lett is the inspiration of Tom Robinson. Like Walter Lett, Tom was accused of rape by a poor white girl named Mayella Ewell; or Naomi Lowery. One of the main similarities is the actions that happened in the trial, especially with Naomi/Mayella. Like Naomi, In To Kill a Mockingbird, When Mayella was being questioned over and over by Atticus and Judge Taylor she started having bouts of rage and would never give clear evidence and sassed them out. Another example is the unstable evidence given to the court about what happened the “no hard evidence” in to To Kill a Mockingbird was the bruises and scars from the “rape” on Mayella.

The case between Tom Robinson and the Ewell’s seemed to have a predictable ending considering that it is very rare for a black man to win a case against a white man. But considering the great lawyer Tom Robinson was given, the outcome could go either way, in favor of the Ewell’s or saving Tom Robinson from going to jail. I was sitting in the front row ready to be bored to sleep by the jury but, instead I was surprised by the questions asked by the lawyers and the responses delivered by the four given testimonies from Heck Tate, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about an african american man who has there life on the line because his being falsely accused of raping a white woman. To Kill a Mockingbird was based off the true story of the Scottsboro boys who were a group of african american teenagers who all had their lives on the line for being falsely accused of raping two white women. Both of these cases are similar because they both have to do with african american men who are being falsely accused of rape, deal with racial injustice or hatred, and are both represented by kind white lawyers. Both the Scottsboro case and the Tom Robinson case, where about black men that had their lives on the line for being falsely accused of rape. On April 9th,1931 an Alabama judge sentenced

A similarity between the two is racial injustice. Atticus explains the court that they cannot simply judge someone based off the color of their skin in which case is happening (Lee 208- online). The Scottsboro trial is known as one of the most shameful examples of injustice in the nation’s history (Linder 9). Back in these times, racism was common and there was still great tension between those of white skin and those of colored. Things we hear and know today are very different from that of Racism and The Great Depression.

Black men are six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in federal prisons and local jails. This kind of injustice is the reason why cases like The Scottsboro Boys case, where nine boys were falsely accused of rape, exist. This is also why books like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are made. In both of these trials, they highlight the injustice of blacks during the 1930’s.

Mississippi Trial, 1955 Segregation is the action of setting someone or many apart from others. During the story, Mississippi Trial, 1955, Emmett Till is one of many black people who are treated unfairly and are ripped apart from their own community. Hiram noticed the indifference between black and white people. He decides he wants to take action and fix the horrible problems that many are facing. Throughout the novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe, Hiram experiences ups and downs all through the story.

This novel came out just as people were fighting over school desegregation, and civil rights movements that sought to restore basic civil rights for African Americans. It was a time of group action in the United States during which African Americans and the NAACP’s objective was to fight racism, discrimination and racial segregation that denied them their fundamental and basic rights. Lee was inspired by a catalysing event that occurred in her hometown in the 1930s when she was only ten years old. The trial is famously known as the Scottsboro Boys Case, where nine young black boys were wrongfully convicted of a heinous crime. They were charged with raping two white girls on a train and were sentenced to the death penalty.

To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials have similarities that are often discussed years after the novel was released and the trials

By taking the word of biased parties on both sides (with the only first-hand witnesses being the parties involved in the alleged crime), prejudice is the only thing left on which the jury can reach a verdict. The evidence is entirely circumstantial, so the jury feels left with the sole option to sentence Tom Robinson to death for being black. Correlating with this evidence is a quote from James Baldwin, a black civil rights reformer and novelist, from a 1965 debate. Baldwin says, “But what is happening in the poor woman, the poor man’s mind is this: they’ve been raised to believe, and by now they helplessly believe, that no matter how terrible their lives may be, and their lives have been quite terrible, and no matter how far they fall, no matter what disaster overtakes them, they have one enormous knowledge in consolation, which is like a heavenly revelation: at least, they are not Black” (Baldwin and Buckley, 1965). This quote resounds within the trial as a whole.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story is set in the 1900’s, Maycomb, Alabama. During this time there was racism in the south and segregation which separated the whites and blacks from everything. There was also the Great Depression, the whole country was poor and people living in the country had to trade and do other jobs for people to either pay them off or to buy something from them. The trial in this book is about Mayella and Bob Ewell, two white people, claiming and arguing that Tom Robinson, a black person, raped Mayella Ewell. This trial is really important because at that time in the south, white people took advantage of black people and their kindness and thought they would take that or shut up just because they were black.

Hello Mr. Underwood, I am a relative of the Cunninghams and was indeed a jury member in the Mayella Ewell vs. Tom Robinson case. While I was on the jury, it was the night after I tried to kill Mr. Tom Robinson with my family. That gave me an interesting perspective on the case, and that is why I am writing to you today. Miss Jean Louise Finch first gave me the idea that night. We are all humans and all our instincts should be of humans, which means not having prejudice.

Harper Lee´s life is similar to the character Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird. The Scottsboro trial was occurring when Harper Lee was growing up, and the Tom Robinson case was occurring when Scout was growing up. Harper Lee used lots of her family names for names for people for To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee and Scout were both tomboys and both a had boy bestfriend.

The Similarities of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Emmett Till Murder Case There have been countless occasions of unfairness and violence in American history between whites and African Americans. Where whites did not think African Americans lives mattered. They were seen as people to be enslaved and working in hot fields at every time of the day. When rights were given to the African Americans they were still not equal, there was still so much ferocity towards them. In Lee’s novel she conveys what it was like for the blacks when peace was just beginning.

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set sometime in the 1930s in Maycomb County Alabama. The story is told through the point of view of Scout Finch who lives with her father, Atticus, and brother, Jem. The kids like to play pretend with their friend Dill about the man who lives in a scary house down the road, Boo Radley. The kids come in a few close counters along the way during these games in which Atticus does not approve. Scouts’ father, a lawyer, is appointed by Judge Taylor to defend Mr. Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young girl.