Donovan Yates
Ms. Black
English 1b - Period 4
29 March, 2016
Trial of the Scottsboro Boys
Racism is apart of human nature, we all have different opinions in our way, like a personal lens. During the end of the Civil War through the early 1900s, racism was still strong and was rejuvenating all over the nation. Many things in the late 1800s and the early 1900s gave birth to a racial equality among people. An example were the Scottsboro boys who suffered the wrath of pro-white ideals. Their lives showed what happened and what will come of it. It proved whites attacks on non-white and the birth of non-white civil rights. The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys helped spark a new uprising of racial equality for races all over America.
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The Supreme Court wrote that the defendant had been denied his 14th Amendment right of equal protection under the law. In the trial, the Amendments 13,14, and 15 were pushed out and weren’t represented during the trial for the teenagers. The prosecutors used the race of the defendants to persuade the court that they were bad men. As the verdict and sentences were announced, a loud roar of protest in the “North and The Communist Party USA took charge of the case and carried out a two-fold battle in the courts and on the streets.”(Wormser) At the same time as the trial, “the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Powell v. Alabama on the grounds that the defendants had not received adequate legal counsel in a capital case.”(Wormser) After the Powell case was settled, Alabama again “tried and convicted Haywood Patterson, this time sentencing him to 75 years in prison.”(Wormser) As more trials continued, “the rest of the defendants resulted in more reconvictions and appeals until, after persistent pressure both Northern and Southern groups, Alabama freed the four youngest defendants.”(Wormser) As the case slowly began to become a memory for America, the U.S Supreme Court triggered many rights for all americans. These rights ended the laws of the 1930s, and cause the Trial to look as a one of the first fights for change for American Civil Rights. Many things help start the Civil Rights Movement, like Plessy vs. Ferguson or 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The Trial Of the Scottsboro Boys help start the first Civil Rights movement in
Ms. Black
English 1b - Period 4
29 March, 2016
Trial of the Scottsboro Boys
Racism is apart of human nature, we all have different opinions in our way, like a personal lens. During the end of the Civil War through the early 1900s, racism was still strong and was rejuvenating all over the nation. Many things in the late 1800s and the early 1900s gave birth to a racial equality among people. An example were the Scottsboro boys who suffered the wrath of pro-white ideals. Their lives showed what happened and what will come of it. It proved whites attacks on non-white and the birth of non-white civil rights. The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys helped spark a new uprising of racial equality for races all over America.
“The Scottsboro Boys …show more content…
The Supreme Court wrote that the defendant had been denied his 14th Amendment right of equal protection under the law. In the trial, the Amendments 13,14, and 15 were pushed out and weren’t represented during the trial for the teenagers. The prosecutors used the race of the defendants to persuade the court that they were bad men. As the verdict and sentences were announced, a loud roar of protest in the “North and The Communist Party USA took charge of the case and carried out a two-fold battle in the courts and on the streets.”(Wormser) At the same time as the trial, “the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Powell v. Alabama on the grounds that the defendants had not received adequate legal counsel in a capital case.”(Wormser) After the Powell case was settled, Alabama again “tried and convicted Haywood Patterson, this time sentencing him to 75 years in prison.”(Wormser) As more trials continued, “the rest of the defendants resulted in more reconvictions and appeals until, after persistent pressure both Northern and Southern groups, Alabama freed the four youngest defendants.”(Wormser) As the case slowly began to become a memory for America, the U.S Supreme Court triggered many rights for all americans. These rights ended the laws of the 1930s, and cause the Trial to look as a one of the first fights for change for American Civil Rights. Many things help start the Civil Rights Movement, like Plessy vs. Ferguson or 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The Trial Of the Scottsboro Boys help start the first Civil Rights movement in