Samuel Leibowitz

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

Lauren Camerer HI202 Extra Credit American Experience Scottsboro Boys Summary I had never heard of the Scottsboro Boys before until this class, which was very surprising to me. It is one of the most notorious cases of racial injustice in the United States history. This tragedy was what sparked Harper Lee’s idea for writing To Kill a Mockingbird, and has since inspired numerous other books, films, documentaries, songs, etc. What happened was, 9 black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two

“The Scottsboro Case (1931)” In the Scottsboro Case, there are nine black teenage boys that were falsely charged as rapists. The court case ended with a judgment against nine black teenage boys who were accused of raping two white women (Ruby Bates and Victoria Price), (Sandbox Networks, Inc., 2015). Two groups of men were traveling on the train a group of whites and a group of blacks. The white men attempted to force the black men off the train. The white men reported to the sheriffs that they

When Harper Lee was writing about the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she had a very real case to look to for inspiration. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys was a world renowned case in the 1930’s in which nine black youths were accused of raping to white girls in Alabama. Lee’s novel took this case and created the fictional case of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a lower class white girl in a small town in Alabama during the Depression-era. The Scottsboro trials were

Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel by Harper Lee named, To Kill a Mockingbird, there is one main tragic event that occurs. The feelings and expressions dealt with in the novel are seen through the eyes of the main character, named Scout. In the novel Tom Robinson is a black male accused of rape in Maycomb County. During the same time period as the novel there were many historical events that were almost identical in setting and conclusion. There were many things that happened

“We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe...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

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 book To Kill a Mockingbird, released in 1960, was written by Harper Lee. She took much of the information in her book from The Scottsboro Trials. The main plot in the book is about Atticus, a lawyer who was defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. The setting took place in a time that was very racist and segregated in Maycomb, Alabama. The Scottsboro Trials was about nine men accused of raping 2 white women. Harper Lee based the Tom Robinson trial in her novel on the

Unfortunately sometimes a disastrous situation must occur for changed to take place. The Scottsboro trials can be a great example of just that. On March 25, 1931 nine young black men ranging in ages from twelve to twenty were arrested and were convicted of allegedly raping two women on a freight train traveling from Alabama to Tennessee. Accused by two white women Victoria Price and Ruby Bates the men were brought to trial. The trials lasted up to almost six years and were named The Scottsboro

The final inspiration for the book is the Scottsboro trials. The Scottsboro trials were a series of court cases for nine black young men, who were falsely accused of raping two white women (Anderson). The grueling cases lasted for many years. The verdict of one of the first cases was the men were guilty. The case eventually made its was up to the Supreme Court where more evidence was discovered. Which was that the men were riding a train car to Alabama in 1931, while the women were on a completely