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. Overall, the relationship among races has not changed tremendously over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but it has changed. In To …show more content…
The Scottsboro boys had to stay in the prisons that were considered inferior to whites because of their terrible conditions until the next trial in 1933. During this trial, the doctor who examined the girls after the supposed rapes acted as more of a help to the defense. The doctor said that there was semen found in the vaginas of the women, but the women came off as calm and had no vaginal damage or bleeding. At the end of the trial, Judge Thornton announced he would dismiss the death sentences and order a new trial. Of the nine boys, seven of them were held for six years until the hearing of Clarence Norris in 1937. The judge rushed into trial and days later sentenced him to death. Andy Wright was tried next and got sentenced to ninety-nine years ("The Trials of “the Scottsboro Boys."). Charlie Ween was sentenced seventy-five years. Ozie Powell was brought into court, but he had a new prosecutor. This new prosecutor was Thomas Lawson, and he dropped the rape charges from Ozie Powell and the four defendants who had not been tried yet: Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright. Lawson said that he believed Wright and Robertson were not guilty and Williams and Wright had already done enough time for their age, guilty or …show more content…
Soon enough, they did and there was the black boy they sought ("The Emmett Till Murder Trial: An Account."). As Emmett followed his relatives into the house, Roy and the other two men followed them onto the porch. They said they were looking for a fat Chicago city boy. Otha, Roy, and John all searched the house until they found Emmett. When they did, Otha forced him to get dressed and threatened the Wright family so that they would not tell who stopped by. The intention of the abductors was to take Emmett to a one hundred foot drop that led to the Mississippi River, but somehow the fog caused them to end up at a barn. Here, they brutally whipped and abused him, along with shooting him. Roy and John decided that was not enough. They were going to tie something to his neck to weigh him down and toss his body into the Tallahatchie River ("The Emmett Till Murder Trial: An
”(King, 219). The NAACP team continues to gather more lawyers and evidence to support their case in the retrial. Marshall was woken up in the middle of the night with news that Mccall had shot both Groveland boys, Shepherd was dead and Irvin was in the hospital. Mccall claimed the Shepherd needed to pee, so he got out of the car, and then hit Mccall over the head with a flashlight and took off running. The FBI did some investigations of the scene and the evidence makes people suspicious of Mccalls
Four days after Till accused of doing that crime and he was kidnapped. He was kidnapped by Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W. Milam from Till’s uncles house. They beat Emmett tragically and shot him in the head. They drug Till to the bank of Tallahatchie River , tied his body with barbed wire and shoved his body into the water. From there his uncle noticed Emmetts disappearance and reported it to the police, and three days later his body was pulled out of the water.
He went to Bryant's grocery store and wolf-whistled at a white woman, not knowing he was not supposed to. Several nights after the incident, Bryant’s husband and his half-brother J.W. had weapons and went to Till‘s relatives who took Emmett, tortured him, shot him, and threw his body on the Tallahatchie River. When it was Emmett's funeral, his mother requested an open
Four days later, Emmett Till was kidnapped and beaten to his death for whistling at Carolyn Bryant (source 3). The disfigured body was thrown in a river tied to a fan a found three days later. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were his killers and taken to court. Though the court
Although there are doubts about who was involved in Emmett Till’s death, the only perpetrators that were tried in court were Roy Bryant, and J.W Milam (Anderson). August 28, 1955 was the day Till was kidnapped and murdered (Emmett Till Biography). Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam went in Mose Wright`s house and demanded the Chicago nigger (Linder).Till was wake up out of his sleep to be dragged to the back of a pickup truck (Linder). He was shot in the right ear, beat with a 45. Colt, and had a gin fan wrapped around his neck with barbed wire (Huie).
They will die with Emmett Till's blood on their hands." Both Roy Bryant and J.W Milam opposed a pleadal deal on kidnapping, which doesn't make much sense since there was an eyewitness. Even with the eyewitness testimony there were still some missing parts of the timeline. For example no one saw everything that had happened. The only people in the store were Carolyn and Emmet himself and he isn't here to tell his story.
Later on in the week Emmett Till was kidnapped at approximately 2:30 in the morning on the twenty-eighth by Roy Bryant, Carolyn Bryant's husband, and John W. Milam (Linder). The disappearance of Till was reported by Moses Wright, then three days later a disfigured body was pulled out of the Tallahatchie River(Emmett; Linder). Moses Wright had been only able to identify the body by the ring it was wearing, it was a ring with the inscribed initials of "L.T", the ring of Mamie Till's deceased husband that was given to Emmett the day before he had left (Emmett Till). The body was shipped backed to Chicago, Bryant and Milam were both tried for murder a few weeks later. The fourteen-year-old boy was murdered for flirting with a white woman.
In August 1955, Emmett went down south to Money, Mississippi to visit family for the first time since he was nine years old. His mama tried to remind him of the different laws for blacks in the South but like most teenage boys, it went in one ear and out the other. A few days into his visit, Emmett entered the general store and innocently flirted with the clerk,Carolyn Bryant. A few days later two male members of the clerk's family kidnapped Emmett from his uncle house. They beat him, gouged out his eye, tied him to a cotton gin fan with barb wire and then threw him into the Tallahatchie river.
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.
“At 2:30 am, a green pickup truck pulled into the front of the Wrights home east of Money. When Wright went to door, the man identified as Roy Bryant and said he wanted to talk to “a fat boy” from Chicago. The men then charged through the house and dragged Emmett out of his bed and throw him in the back of the pick up”(Kinnon). After a day went by his family was worried, Then about three days later “a fisherman found Emmett's body in the Tallahatchie river with his face pounded in, his eye detached, his ear missing and had a wired cotton gin fan to his neck”(Larsson). Emmett's uncle was called to the scene to identify the body, when Mose Wright Emmett's uncle, identified the body as Emmett's then took the body and placed it in the casket and sent it to Chicago as Emmett's mother
Emmett Till was visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi for a few weeks that summer. When he went into a grocery store to buy some bubblegum on August 24, proceeded to do something that got him killed. It is alleged that Emmett Till whistled/cat-called one of the female members of the white family who owned the store, Carolyn Bryant. This led to his capture 4 days later by Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam. They captured Till and tortured him until they eventually shot him in the head and dumped his 14 year old body in the Tallahatchie River, they found him in the water three days later.
While visiting his family on summer vacation in Money, Mississippi, Emmett Till went to Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market. Once known for being the heart and drive of the town, it is now known as the site of Till’s fatal crime of wolf-whistling at Carolyn Bryant, the white shopkeeper’s wife. (Lowery) Rob Bryant (Carolyn's husband) and his half-brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till from Moses Wright's home and brought him to a shed. There, they brutally beat him, shot him in the head, wrapped his body in barbed wire, fastened a large metal fan around his neck and pushed his body into the Tallahatchie River.
Racism played a part in the Scottsboro trials in many ways. Racism is an act of discrimination against ones race. Racism is motivated in many ways. People use it to boost their self-esteem to make them feel better about themselves. Structure is another part; whites want to have what they are familiar with and do not want change among society.
The Scottsboro boys trial and the Tom Robinson trial in To Kill a Mockingbird are similar for these reasons. Mayella Ewell represents Victoria Price and Ruby Bates because Mayella made the crowd fell bad for her because she was a white, shy, and an unstable women. I think Lee kept these details the same because in the Scottsboro trial Price and Bates were the ones “raped”, and in the Robinson trial Mayella was the one “raped”. As I said Price and Bates are being represented by Mayella in the Robinson trial. Another similarity was that both trails were about rape.
Carolyn was the owner's wife. Emmett and his cousins quickly left, refraining to inform his uncle about the incident. Several days went by and they forgot about the incident, however Carolyn did not. She told her husband and on August 28 at approximately 2:30 am, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam kidnapped Emmett. They beat him brutally, and dragged him to the bank of the Tallahatchie river.