Compare And Contrast The Scottsboro Trial And The Tom Robinson Trial

Harper lee creates a trial similar to the Scottsboro trial in her book To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee was a kid when the trial became popular so it would make sense to mimic the trial. It could have been a way to express her opinion on the unfairness of the trial. Mayella Ewells is similar to Ruby Bates because they both violated the social principle of segregation. Mayella Ewells tempted Tom Robinson by kissing him “She reached up an’ kissed me” Robinson told Atticus Finch when giving his testimony.

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.

Throughout history, there have been many “witch hunts” that have created mass hysteria. Two of which were called the Salem Witch Trials and the Scottsboro Case. The two trials have many similarities to each other and so have many other trials. The Scottsboro Trials, in summary, was about nine young black men being accused of raping two young white women.

Relationships among races have evolved within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The majority of race-related conflicts were negative. Some of the trials that took place throughout this time period were the Scottsboro Trials, the Emmett Till Murder Trial, Loving v. Virginia, the Trial of Peter Liang, and the Johnson v. California trial. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a fictional trial that dealt with the relationship between a black man and white woman. Racial relations does not only deal with African-Americans and whites but other races including Asians, South Africans, etc.

America, Changed for the better "You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity"(Bobby Seale). Over the years our American history has been shaped by good and bad events. Racism has been apart of us since the beginning. It has shaped our history a great deal. An important event that has shaped American history is the Scottsboro trials.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee, uses the character of Tom Robinson to give her insight on the recent crime of Emmett Till. The trial was a very controversial case in the 1950s, involving the brutal murder of a young black boy, in racist Mississippi. In the real-life case, there is a woman named Carolyn Bryant who accuses Till of cat-calling and using vulgar language. However, Till was innocent, yet received punishment. Lee also recreated the persona of Carolyn into Mayella Ewell, who is the women that accuses Tom Robinson of raping her.

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

When do you decide that racism is not just a collection of non-isolated isolated incidents? When instead does it become a whole system set up for the benefit of a particular segment of society?” (Baylor). The trial of the Scottsboro Boys is an example of racial injustice and discrimination at its peak. The infamous trial of nine black teenagers who were accused of raping two white women spread like wildfire across the South, which had been polluted with racism by Jim Crow and years of slavery that had come to an end.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell claimed she was raped after requesting Tom Robinson's help. Her dad ran in after the alleged rape; they told the sheriff, and Tom Robinson was put in jail. In the Scottsboro trials and in To Kill A Mocking, the African American men were taken from jail to

The Effects of the Scottsboro Trials on the Civil Rights Movement The United States constitution gives all Americans “the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury”. Although this is the sixth amendment in the constitution of our nation, there have been many instances where the accused were not given this basic right. Many of the trials helped to spark the Civil Rights movement, and advance Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Scottsboro Trials of the 1930s are just one of the many cases in United States history that helped to start the advancement of Civil Rights in America, showing blatant racism by convicting innocent people because of their racial background.

The Scottsboro Trails and the Salem Witch Trials compare and contrast in many ways. Both outcomes result in mass death and heartache due to hysteria. However the reasoning for these false accusing seem to differ. Nine young men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931.

Nine boys Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Roy Wright were accused of raping two white women on a freight train, on March 24, 1931. The boys were caught for illegally riding on a freight train, and were originally charged with that until one of the police found the two white women VIctoria Price, and Ruby Bates and pressured them into saying that the boys had raped them on the freight tra in. All the Scottsboro boys were sentenced to death in the first trial, except Roy Wright who was only 13 was sentenced to life in prison. After two more trials with an all white jury, got the attention of the nation because it was showing how racist the U.S court system was. Ruby Bates eventually went out and retold her statement saying that she was pressured into telling the jury that the Scottsboro boys had raped them.

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.

Social injustices have been an apparent theme throughout history for many years. Anti-Semitism and Racial discrimination are just two of the many examples of social injustices that have been exhibited in our society. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, both novels share the theme of Social Injustice. Narrated by Death, The Book Thief follows nine-year old Liesel Meminger during World War two in Germany. Liesel and her family are on their way to Molching when Liesel

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson goes to jail for being accused of raping Mayella. Scout and Jem walk home everyday from school and pass Boo Radley’s house. Atticus’s neighbors house burnt down in the winter. The theme of the book is important because it shows how others step into others’ shoes and see how they feel.