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The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime story is a very popular show in our pop culture. Although the show is based on the real life events that occurred back in 1994 when O.J. Simpson was accused for the murders of his ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. In 1995 he was trialed and acquitted of both murders. The series recreates what they called the, ‘trail of the century’. The O.J. Simpson was one of the few famous trials that were televised. The actors and actresses that

trial, the jury is one example of those biased leaders. Harper Lee establishes the existence of racism in the novel through many illustrations throughout the story showing that the jury is against Tom for being a black man, and the community is also attacking Atticus for defending Tom. In Maycomb, during the trial, the jury is racist towards Tom Robinson. This is shown in the book when Atticus is saying his final statement to the jurors. At this point, he has almost given up on making the jury believe

A Finches Eye View Supremacy… inequality… prejudice… these are all conflicts that most people in the world today have encountered or will encounter at some point in their lifetime. Harper Lee’s 1960 novella, To Kill a Mockingbird, highlights all of the struggles listed above, and documents the effects that they have on the characters lives. The story is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s during the time of the Great Depression, and follows the Finch family as they pilot themselves through the

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due to the extreme poverty caused by the Great Depression. Whether it was blacks or whites, they were all affected one way or the other by the nation’s economical failure. It became popular for the young men and women to travel by freight trains to arrive to the places with better job opportunities. Around this time blacks were still not treated fairly, even in poverty. In the Scottsboro case in Alabama two white woman prostitutes falsely accused nine African American youths of rape on a freight

flashback, she recalls the trial of Tom Robinson, who was defended by her father. Tom Robinson was an African American who was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell, daughter of Bob Ewell. Unfortunately, this trial is unfair and biased with an unjust outcome because of the jury and racism. During the trial it was obvious to see that the jury played a huge impact on the result of the trial. An excerpt from

are made by members of a jury. Jurors must acquire a majority verdict in order to sentence an accused to death. Although jurors are asked to be objective, their decisions are, however, more often influenced by values than facts (Devine and Kelly, 393). In fact, based on the Capital Jury Project (CJP) which include 1,200 interviews of jurors who served in 353 death-penalty trials in 14 states (Devine and Kelly, 393), Dennis J. Devine and Christopher E. Kelly used 314 CJP juries to conduct a “bivariate

of races like white and black but also class. He said that those citizens in the jury selection process were being discrediting and excluding people based on class and that’s why there hasn’t been a Mexican-American citizen on a Texas jury in over 25 years. This affected all the minorities and lower classes especially Mexican-Americans and made it unfair to them in court cases. On the other hand The State of Texas said that the 14th amendment only protected the rights of whites and blacks and

How would you feel if a family member was convicted guilty when you and the jury know they were innocent? Many African American families had that feeling because of unfair court trials in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As reconstruction ended many things came about such as Jim Crow laws, discrimination, and the idea of white supremacy. These laws, feelings, and ideas made it so there were no fair trials with African Americans against Caucasians in the south in the late 1800s and early 1900s

inequality that is white supremacy. Whether by following lead or by ignoring the problem altogether, it is the people alone who allow injustices to occur. In a public appeal for an era of tolerance, Harper Lee attacks Southern racism through Scout Finch's narration of her father's failure to correct a corrupt legal system dominated by prejudiced citizens seeking to rule the law by their own hands. Tom