Segregation And Racism In The 1930's
The Jim Crow era was at an extremity in the 1930s. Segregation and discrimination was the norm across the whole country and white people in the South had a desire to keep races “separate”, but far from “equal” as possible according to the Plessy v. Ferguson standards. 1931 was not such a good for the country after suffering from The Great Depression, but it also was not a great year for nine young African-American males in Scottsboro, AL. On March 25,1931 nine African-American teenagers boarded a train to travel through Alabama and a young black male by the name of of Haywood Patterson and a young white male had an altercation. The young white male stepped on Patterson’s hand. Patterson had friends that was aboard the train that was also African-American
males. A fight started between the white youths and the larger group of black youths and eventually the black youths forced the gang of white youths except for Orville Gilley, off of the train. The remaining youths that were forced off of the train went to the stationmaster that was in Stevenson, AL to report the assault committed by the gang of black youths and the train was stopped in Paint Rock, AL. Dozens of armed men was waiting on the train and arrested every black person on the train. The nine captured blacks were tied together with a plow line, put on a pick-up truck and taken to a jail in Scottsboro, AL.
males. A fight started between the white youths and the larger group of black youths and eventually the black youths forced the gang of white youths except for Orville Gilley, off of the train. The remaining youths that were forced off of the train went to the stationmaster that was in Stevenson, AL to report the assault committed by the gang of black youths and the train was stopped in Paint Rock, AL. Dozens of armed men was waiting on the train and arrested every black person on the train. The nine captured blacks were tied together with a plow line, put on a pick-up truck and taken to a jail in Scottsboro, AL.