Scottsboro Boys Vs Tom Robinson Trial Essay

The unjust, prejudicial, and biased prosecution of the Scottsboro boys, can be compared to the fictitious trial of Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird). In both events (factual and fictional), they share similar circumstances and events, with slight differences. To begin, before the trials had even begun, both the Scottsboro boys and Tom Robinson had an angry mob surrounded the jail, who were prepared for a good old fashioned lynching. Secondly, the main witnesses for both the Scottsboro trial (Victoria Price and Ruby Bates), and the trial of Tom Robinson (Mayella Ewell), both blatantly lied and contradicted themselves during cross-examination. Lastly, the jurors picked for both trials were biased, on account of the fact that they were white farmers and/or landowners (definitely not their peers). …show more content…
Initial thought to be arrested for a fight with multiple white men, the boys soon found out they were being falsely accused of the heinous crime of rape. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was also accused of the atrocious crime of rape. In both cases of the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Robinson, once word had spread about their alleged crimes and imprisonment, lynch mobs formed outside of the jails. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus was able to make the mob disband with some help from his children. However, regarding the lynch mob that wanted to murder the Scottsboro Boys, “Sheriff Waun at Scottsboro asked for troops when a crowd which had gathered about the jail became threatening. The Sheriff wired to Montgomery that the crowd numbered 300” (The New York Times, March 25, 1931). Sheriff Waun feared for the lives of the nine black teenagers, and called for the National Guard to protect

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