The Scottsboro Boys

some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it”(Lee 274). This phrase shows Atticus’ opinion about society and the luck some people are born with. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee contains some similarities with the Scottsboro boys case in which a few black men are accused of something that they didn’t do in the early 1900’s and are taken to trial in which it results into unexpected consequences. Justice has been routinely denied to African Americans throughout the past

1950s, Tom Robinson, Emmett Till, and the nine Scottsboro boys were sentenced to death after facing an all-white jury for a crime they did not commit. In 1931, nine, young, unemployed, black men were falsely accused of raping two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. Their sentence to death after facing an all-white jury sparked rallies and parades, which successfully changed the unfair verdict of their trial. Similarly, a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was unjustly murdered after allegedly

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 trial of Tom

Academic Summary: “Alabama Pardons 3 ‘Scottsboro Boys’ After 80 Years” In the article “Alabama Pardons 3 ‘Scottsboro Boys’ After 80 Years” (November 21, 2013), Alan Blinder argues the significance, to the modern world, of the pardons issued recently to three black men falsely accused of sexual assault in a long series of trials that has become known as the “Scottsboro Boys”. Blinder supports his reasoning by describing the history of the lawsuit and the efforts put into the posthumous pardons. For

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

The Scottsboro boys were nine African American teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama during the year 1931. No crime in American history that never occurred has produced as many trials, convictions, and retrials as the alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers did. This tragedy marks a time in the United States where African Americans were not receiving the right to a fair trial and encountering racism because of their skin color. This court case

The Scottsboro Boys case that occurred in the 1930s, generated local, national, and international interest in the treatment of African Americans in the American south. Never had a crime produced so many trials and convictions as the Scottsboro Boys case in all of American history. The cases created celebrities out of anonymities and wasted innocent young lives. On one fateful day in April 1931, 9 African American boys, ages 12-19, were riding a freight train from Chattanooga to Memphis. A series

Courts, 2017, p. 193). In the documentary over the case we see multiple times that the boys were not properly represented in a court of law in respect to counsel. The documentary displays both functionalism and also conflict theory. The definition of functionalism is the relationship between the parts of society. The functionalist perspective focuses primarily on race and socioeconomic status. The Scottsboro Boys were disadvantaged for many reasons. They were African American individuals of low socioeconomic

The Scottsboro Boys was a nationally controversial case; and it all began with nine African-American men and two white women aboard a train. The train ride began on March 25, 1931. A fight erupted between the African-American men and the white men on board the train

In Scottsboro, Alabama, March 9, 1931 nine African american boys, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Eugene Williams, Andy Wright, and Roy Wright were incriminated of rapeing two white women on the subway. As they were accused of raping Ruby Bates and Victoria Price they were put on trial. This trail was long and unfair. On the train the boys were evidently taken away by the sheriff, once Ruby told a posse member (sheriff/police) of