Scottsboro Trials Research Paper

In the Scottsboro Trials, there were 9 boys all accused falsely of a crime they did not commit. Knowing how much worse the racist back in the early 1900s was shows we have come a long way, but are still far from a completely non-racist world. To Kill A Mockingbird is also a great example of how things were back then, seeing as the two cases carry the nearly exact same things. Both were falsely accused by poor white women that had no medical evidence provided at the ‘crime scene’. Both of these things were horrible things, but have helped us move on from our past mistakes. In today’s world, most of the racism has moved on from blacks, but is still there, and onto the Middle Eastern population. Hopefully, people will learn from our mistakes

and not treat every Middle Eastern as a terrorist, such as they did to blacks in the early to mid 1900s. Knowing how similar these two events were, we should be able move on from what is happening right now, such as we did in the 1900s to the black people.
To Kill A MockingBird was published much after the Scottsboro Trial, roughly 30 years after it.

Not many people saw that what they did to the kids was evil, nor did they really care. A lot of people back then were prejudice, not everyone, but a lot. The history of the United States shows that there are tons of more cases like Tom Robinson’s. Lots of others falsely accused just because they felt like it. However, Tom is perhaps one of the more luckier ones. Many people did not get a chance at a good lawyer. Tom did. Many people, like the Scottsboro boys, had drunkards and people too old too even walk on their to represent them in the court of law. They never stood much of a chance. This was the case all around the United States. You could be a good person, helping in many ways. But one wrong move and everyone hated you. The juries were biased. Most juries never had a black man, or even considered having one. All around our country of freedom and equality, people were having their freedom taken away because they were not believed to be equal. The very things the country were based on were being taken right before their eyes. Taken merely because their skin color was different. These things were taken without reason, without anything backing up their statements besides the words of a poor, young, lying

woman.
However, the issue of skin color goes farther than just the courthouse.

In everyday things, blacks are thought of as, for the most part, people that start useless bloodshed. People that live in rundown neighborhoods and are outcasts. For some, this may be true. However, people of all different skins colors and races also live, and act, in these areas. Police are also thought of as murderers. Because of a few unjustified shootings, some people in the world believe that all police officers are murderers. Because of the actions of a couple people, a huge amount of people are affected. People like to look at the bad in people, instead of the good. Like Tom, they looked over who he was as a person and instead, looked at his skin color. People have always looked past the person behind the uniform. Behind the clothing. Behind the religions. Behind their gender. Behind their skin color. This isn’t only happening in the United States. All around the world, people are still fighting for equal rights for everyone. For women, religion and for all around freedom. These issues are not as strong as they were in the past. But they are ever as important and will always continue. No matter how the world changes, there will always be people in this world that would much rather look at a person’s skin color or uniform much rather than the person that is wearing that uniform or has that skin. In this world, the battle for equality isn't just a courthouse battle, but a world wide battle. As

David Allan Coe once said, “All men are created equal, it is only the men themselves who place themselves above equality.”