Similarities And Similarities Between Tom Robinson And Scottsboro Boys

This caused many rallies, riots, peaceful protest. This case informs us now because it also tells us how bad they were treated back then, the people believed the girls because they were white, and mostly overlooked the boys because they were black. So to end this long unfair trial, they were cleared.The latter mentioned in the book To kill a Mockingbird, by author Harper lee.

Both trials were based off of false accusations against black men. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was accused of rape by Mayella Ewell. And in the Scottsboro trial Charles Weems, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Ozie Powelll, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Willie Roberson, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson were accused of rape by Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, a known prostitute. “The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, on the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all Negros lie, that all Negros are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber” (Lee 204). This quote was stated by Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird in the court and he is stating the beliefs of most people in the south during the Great Depression. These trials took place during a time of segregation and racism so most people took the side of the white women. Both of the juries and judges for these trials were white. Because of this, the accused had no chance of getting equal treatment or justice. The last and most important similarity between the Tom Robinson trial and the Scottsboro trial is the similarities within the court.

To Kill A Mockingbird and the Plessy vs. Ferguson case are very similar only because of the Tom Robinson case. Both cases were set in the south, involving African American males. The Plessy vs. Ferguson case, Homer Plessy was traveling alone on a train in Louisiana. Mr. Plessy was ⅞ white and ⅛ black, so Plessy had a lighter complexion. Mr. Plessy sat in the ‘whites only’ section. Even though Plessy had light skin color, he was considered African American, so he was required to sit in the ‘colored section,’ but on that day Plessy sat in the ‘whites only’ section

To Kill a Mockingbird exposes the historical robbery of the basic rights of African Americans in the South during the 1930s. Tom Robinson is a victim of that injustice. The Plessy v. Ferguson case deals with issues that are evident in this novel. Both Homer Plessy and Tom Robinson are violated legally due to their skin color. Tom Robinson has trouble being seen as innocent due to the prejudice that exists in Maycomb County, similar to how Homer Plessy had trouble getting support on his side in Louisiana. As stated in To Kill a Mockingbird, “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” Eventually, both men lost their cases due to the power that white people had over blacks. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys are also similar to Tom Robinson’s trial. The Scottsboro Boys were nine

There were several trials held throughout the case of the Scottsboro Boys. Most of them were unfair and obviously conducted with the odds stacked against the boys. The testimonies given by the two girls often did not match up. Victoria Price spent the most time on the stand, and on the rare occasion that Ruby Bates testified, most of what she said was disregarded because it contradicted or changed Price’s story. It was concluded that anything Bates said was no good because she was dimwitted and could not keep her story straight.

I think that Harper Lee was inspired by the events of the Scottsboro Boys to write To Kill a Mockingbird based of the following evidence. Several of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are very similar to people that were involved in the Scottsboro Boys trials. The setting in a small Alabama town are similar and that both of the accoused rapes are both under similar circumstances that a black man was accused by a white women. This essay will be comparing characters from the book to real people from the Scottsboro Boys trials. Including Haywood Patterson, Tom Robinson, Victoria Price, Mayella Ewell, Samuel Leibowitz, and Atticus Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys are similar because Harper Lee based her story on the Scottsboro Trials.

In 1931, nine men of the black race were accused of rape to two women of the white race, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The men were: Charles Weems, 20, Clarence Norris, 19, Andy Wright, 19, Ozie Powell, 15, Olen Montgomery, 17, Eugene Williams, 13, Willie Roberson, 16, Roy Wright, 12, and Haywood Patterson, 18. Eight of the defendants were sentenced to death. The youngest, Roy Wright, was the only one that was not given a death penalty.

One of the most important cases in the history of the judicial system is little known in the modern world. The case of the Scottsboro Boys made headlines in early 1931 when nine African-American men were charged with the gang rape of two white females on a freight train from Chattanooga to Memphis. Since the time of the trial, it has become widely accepted that the allegation was false and that no rape actually occurred. However, the case represents an issue greater than itself, one that is explored similarly in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee through the case of Tom Robinson. The issue of large scale racism and discrimination has been a problem plaguing American culture for a very long time, finally becoming an issue of the

Did you ever wonder who the Scottsboro Boys were? What happen to Tom Robinson? How they could manage the racisms? How it felt to be arrested for something you didn’t do? In To Kill A Mocking Bird, Tom Robinson was arrested for a crime he never committed. In addition, that time period there were many racism incidents that occurred. In many ways, the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Robinson were alike, but also different. In To kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson’s Trial connects to the Scottsboro Trials because they both were accused of a crime against raping a white woman.

In chapter seven of Criminal Courts discusses defense attorneys with addition to a section over indigent rights. More importantly it talks about the court case Powell v. Alabama, “The Court concluded that given the seriousness of the charges and the special circumstances present, the lack of counsel denied the defendants due process under the law… Established a right to appointed counsel in capital cases, it did not require counsel to be appointed in noncapital state prosecutions so long as the proceedings were not fundamentally unfair (Criminal Courts, 2017, p. 193). In the documentary over the case we see multiple times that the boys were not properly represented in a court of law in respect to counsel.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout struggles with a few obstacles throughout the book, she has many people that help her through them. In Chris Crowe’s Mississippi Trial, 1955, Hiram learns a lot as he grows older and more mature. He figures out the true meanings of things that happen in The South. To Kill a Mockingbird and Mississippi Trial, 1955 are both stories with African American women that play a strong role with other characters, and are affected by being in a different social status than everyone else.

During the Stories of To Kill a Mockingbird and the story of Emmett Till there are two africans who were killed for harassing a female but the stories are very different. The fictional and nonfictional stories have many things that do and don’t resemble each other.

Prepared to see The Scottsboro Boys, I awaited in the view obstructed “row H” behind a mountain of curly red hair. Between my challenged vision, in pair with a simple wooden set which dragged into the theater, not much grabbed my attention. Oh, how wrong I would quickly prove to be. Boom! Like a firecracker on the Fourth of July, people, shouts, and cheers exploded into the room. My head swiveled in every direction, overwhelmed by the euphoric commotion that flooded into the theatre. At that moment, I couldn’t help but smile... a smile that would soon fade.

We are now aware of Ruby Bates (17), Victoria Price (21), and Mayella Ewell (the oldest of her siblings), all three of these women come from unstable homes and different walks of life. To the people who truly know them , they are all women who are out of jobs or have indulged themselves in many sexual activities, but to the people who don't know them quite well enough, consider these women to be honest and automatically have the right-of-way in their cases due to the color of their skin. It seemed like Harper Lee left us with all the information and answers to her superb book “To kill a mockingbird”, but it can be argued about whether Harper Lee answered questions as to whether or not she based the book off the historical Scottsboro incident. I feel that because of the similarities between the fictional and historical female characters, the fictional and historical male characters,and also the similarities between the evidence given in the fictional and historical trials, all point to how Harper Lee certainly based her novel off of the Scottsboro trial.