in the Scottsboro trials. This media involvement served to exacerbate multiple divisions at play in the trial. The newspapers drew heavily on racial divisions starting at the first trial by emphasizing the racial difference between the alleged criminals and their victims. They also ran with the line that it was up to the white men of the south to save the honor of these victims by handing out the death penalty. This served in stirring up a mob by immediately condemning nine Scottsboro boys.
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Amber Jazwiecki Mr. Rosenbaum P-3 February 21‚ 2011 English Research To Kill a Mockingbird 1. The Scottsboro Trials are about when 9 black young men were arrested for assault and later raping two white women on a train coming from Paint Rock‚ Alabama. Later the court found all nine guilty and they were sentenced to death. A few years later the public found out that the white women were lying but only one of the men were retried and that one man was sentenced to life in prison for not
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Tom Robinson‚ in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ symbolize the unjust treatment the black residents of Maycomb county face. Using the case that question Tom’s innocence‚ Lee paints a picture of justice‚ morality‚ and ethics examined through the eyes of young white female Scout. Tom Robinson also symbolizes the innocence of the Mockingbird portrayed in the title of the book. Readers learn from the book that to kill a mockingbird‚ is a sin. “Equal rights for all‚ special privileges for none.” (328)
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Victoria Price and the Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro case‚ a cause in modern American race relations‚ began when a brawl between whites and blacks took place while riding a freight train through northern Alabama in 1931 (Boyer). When Jackson County Officials stopped the train‚ two white women appeared from the freight train and accused nine black teens of raping them. One of those women was Victoria Price. Victoria Price was born on January 20‚ 1911. She grew up in the poor parts of Huntsville
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ethnicity‚ religion‚ disability‚ age or other characteristics. In the case of Tom Robinson in How to Kill a Mockingbird he did not receive justice. Tom robinson was accused of physically and sexually assaulting a young woman‚ Miss Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch (Tom Robinson’s lawyer) during the trail pointed out a few things that were evident and proved that Mr. Robinson’s innocence. Miss Ewell claims that Tom Robinson came into her house and suddenly jumped on her and attacked her‚ grabbed her
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are not accustomed to in everyday life. Therefore these certain individuals are viewed as outcasts to society for no certain reason at all‚ such as skin color. One character who was symbolized by the mockingbird was a black man‚ Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was a man who had been wrongly viewed by society. Society viewed him as just a black man living in a white
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the prejudice and racism displayed towards people of colour. Particularly‚ Tom Robinson‚ an innocent man‚ slain by the caste system when he later is found guilty of rape‚ resulting in preconceived antipathy towards Tom because of his colour. His innocence of the crime he’s accused of suggests a relationship to the mockingbird for they both provide no harm. Considering the irrationality of the townspeople‚ killing Tom Robinson brought forward no good or prevented no evil‚ just like a mockingbird. Similarly
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our society‚ people are always being treated unfairly whether it is or is not intentional. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ the character Tom Robinson was a hardworking crippled Black man living in 1930’s America. He was convicted for raping a White young woman named Mayella Ewell. Throughout the course of the book‚ Robinson was consistently victimized by the citizens of his predominantly White town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Tommy Lee Hines is a 26-year-old mentally retarded citizen
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horrifying situation. Tom Robinson‚ a black male is accused of raping and abusing Mayella. Between class judgement‚white supremacy ‚ and ‚ is Mayella really powerful? Given Mayella’s race‚ you could say that she is a powerful person. As stated before‚ in that time period‚ white people had more power blacks. Black people were treated unfairly. For example‚ Reverend Sykes tells Jem that he “ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.”. Even though Tom Robinson was innocent‚
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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 the main source
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