The Scottsboro Boys

for work. A group of whites and a group of blacks who are later called the ‘Scottsboro boys’ got in a fight on a train. The Scottsboro boys were defending themselves and they kicked the white group off in Jackson County. Then, two women who were on the train were trying to avoid arrest therefore falsely accused the nine black youths (who range from the age of thirteen to nineteen years old) of raping them. The Scottsboro boys were then arrested with assault and rape charges added against all nine of

How “The Scottsboro Boys” Impacts Theater Audience ​Life reflecting Art and Art reflecting life are two concepts often discussed when controversial topics are tacked either in real life, because they did happen, or in art forms, because they are creative, and sometimes, products of the artist’s imagination. Depicting the events in the story of the Scottsboro case in American history is no exception, as the sensitive issues of injustice and racial discrimination, have been exposed not only in various

In the novel The Scottsboro Boys written by one of the nine, Haywood Patterson tells us about his tragic experience he had to go through for over ten years of his life. The Scottsboro Boys were innocent because of the lack of witnesses from the scene, Racist acts against them in court and small amount of evidence against the boys. One of the reasons that the Scottsboro Boys were innocent was because of the lack of witnesses from the scene. Throughout the four trials against the boys there were only

One of the most important cases in the history of the judicial system is little known in the modern world. The case of the Scottsboro Boys made headlines in early 1931 when nine African-American men were charged with the gang rape of two white females on a freight train from Chattanooga to Memphis. Since the time of the trial, it has become widely accepted that the allegation was false and that no rape actually occurred. However, the case represents an issue greater than itself, one that is explored

Scottsboro Boys Although the Great Depression of the 1930’s diminished the American economy, it did not alter the racist tendencies deeply ingrained within the South. One of the most notorious examples of such discrimination is the Scottsboro case; a case were nine black teenage boys were falsely arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death for the gang rape of two white women. On March 25th 1931, four black Chattanooga teenagers on a search for new government jobs and five other miscellaneous black

The Scottsboro Boys are an important part of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The most important facts in the arrest and accusations of the Scottsboro Boys are when the boys were first arrested for assault after the fight broke out on a train, Victoria Price, a white woman that had been involved in the fight, had accused six of the boys of gang raping her, and that the law concluded that the other boys had to have been involved, and Ruby Bates, the other white woman entangled in the fight on the

The Scottsboro Boys In 1931, nine men of the black race were accused of rape to two women of the white race, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The men were: Charles Weems, 20, Clarence Norris, 19, Andy Wright, 19, Ozie Powell, 15, Olen Montgomery, 17, Eugene Williams, 13, Willie Roberson, 16, Roy Wright, 12, and Haywood Patterson, 18. Eight of the defendants were sentenced to death. The youngest, Roy Wright, was the only one that was not given a death penalty. It all started when the nine men and

The Scottsboro Trials Influence The Scottsboro trial of the 1930’s is still one of the most famous racial cases today. It impacted the legal system and changed the course of history for years to come. It has even influenced and inspired literary work such as Tom Robinson’s case in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The similarities between the Scottsboro case and Tom Robinson’s case heavily outweigh the differences. Thus it can be concluded that without the Scottsboro case To Kill a Mockingbird

The Scottsboro boys trial took place in March of 1931, a trial that was dictated by race and not by actions. The accusations were faulty, as was the evidence. Yet the boys were all sentenced for death or life imprisonment. The trial was unfair at least, the nine black boys were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys were riding a train to find work and instead got into a fight with some of the white men on the train. The police were called and they came. Two women were also in the train

In Mark Steins play, Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys, we follow nine young boys on a journey through the American justice system and how they got there in the first place. An ordinary train ride, a tat with some white boys, and an accusation that turns the world of these nine boys upside down. This modern tragedy is the story of these young boys’ lives, and is the premise of how Aristotle 's poetics came to be. Aristotle came up with these ideas through natural philosophy which is defined