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Summary Of ' Kill A Mockingbird ' And The Emmett Till Murder Trial '

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Alissa Compton
Ivy Tech 111
Ms. Deshaney
11 Dec. 2016
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Race relations have always been prevalent in the United States. Many people have fought and risked their lives to overcome these racial differences. Race relations have played a large role in forming today’s nation. This process has been evolving over past and even current generations. Racial division can be seen in numerous situations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The cases of Scottsboro Trials and the Emmett Till Murder Trial, and the fictional case of Tom Robinson’s trial in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird all happened in the 20th century. They showed the tough times of races being divided and crimes against one another. Race related crimes are still happening even in today’s society. Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. and the Coca-Cola Company lawsuit both also show recent cases of discrimination and race relations. The Scottsboro Trials were nine African-American boys that were accused of raping two white women on a train by Scottsboro, Alabama, in the 1930s. The Scottsboro boys were on the train looking for jobs when they were accused of rape. Scottsboro deputies got two white women, Rudy Bates and Victoria Price, to accuse the nine boys of raping them on the train. The deputies basically pressured the women into accusing the boys, and this just shows how bad the racism truly was. At this time in history the charge of raping a white

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