Scottsboro Boys Trial Research Paper

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Imagine it being March 25, 1931 and being an African American and racism is high. You are accused of raping two white females and know you didn’t do it. This is only part of the story of the Scottsboro Boys trial. If you want to find out how this trial rolls out, what actually happened/ the outcome, and how it relates to the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, then continue reading! The Scottsboro Boys trial is very bias based, prejudiced, and racist.. Two girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused the Scottsboro boys of raping them on an Alabama train car. The two were on a job search, being unsuccessful, they ended up on this railcar together. Realizing there were nine African American boys on that train, they used them to their …show more content…
In the end of the trial, the boys all were found guilty and sentenced to death, except the youngest. The youngest, 13 year-old Leroy Wright was sentenced to life in prison because jury believed he shouldn’t have been tried as an adult. One of the accusers, Ruby Bates, had tried to right her wrongs for lying and told the jury in the second trial that she lied and that the rape never happened. Even though she ended up telling the truth, not much had changed because of the racism going on at the time. The girls had never actually seen these boys until they got off the train and the medical testimony had shown no proof of rape to the girls. Most of the boys were sentenced to prison for some reason, shown …show more content…
During TKAM the accused, Tom Robinson, was proven guilty for raping Mayella Ewell, even though he probably didn’t do it. This is almost exactly like what happened to the Scottsboro boys, since they were innocent. Both trials were still accused and found guilty. Both of these trials were happening around the 1930s, when racism was big and both of these accused were African American. Finally, all of the girls that had been “victims” were white and were trying to find a way out. For example, Victoria and Ruby were looking for a job, finding the boys and Mayella Ewell was asking Tom for help with her chiffarobe. Either way, these stories are very similar to each other because this happened during the 1930s, the boys/men were black and found guilty, and the women were looking for a way
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