Douglas O. Linder’s essay, “The Trials of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’,” asserts that colored people were a majority of people who would be conflicted or blamed through racism endured during past times and cause the Boys to be allowed to receive the right to a fair trial. He supports this claim by first elaborating that rape was a common problem in the south which had involve most young black men, by a concern made by the NAACP that rape became a “politically explosive charge”. This indicates that rape cases may get some or all Scottsboro Boys guilty of their actions and can damage the generality of its effectiveness. In addition, the Boys were entitled to retrials which made them fair as regular people (whites) as their own laws are “part of the