most significant cases of black oppression happened in 1931. There were nine black teenagers (who people now refer to as the Scottsboro boys) and a few of them got into a fight with some white teenagers. The fight happened because the white teenagers were trying to push all the black people off the train saying it was “a white man's train.” The train stopped in Scottsboro, Alabama because of this. Nine black teenagers, the white guys, and two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates all got off
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Scottsboro Boys The Scottsboro Boys is known as a minstrel show. A minstrel show consists of comic relief, a variety of acting, dancing and music by white people in blackface or black people in blackface. This particular show consisted of black people in blackface. However, minstrel shows portray black people as dim-witted, lazy, and careless. The nine Scottsboro boys were accused in Alabama for raping two white women on a train in the 1930s. The landmark of legal cases from this incident dealt
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A recent Supreme Court case in which a juvenile being tried as an adult was brought up was Miller v. Alabama. It's premise was that Evan Miller, a fourteen year old boy, along with his accomplice, Colby Smith, set fire to their neighbors trailer from whom they had purchased drugs. The neighbor and owner of the trailer, Cole Cannon, had fallen asleep after a drinking session with both Miller and Smith and only woke to find that he was being robbed. After noticing this, both Miller and Smith proceeded
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The case Gregg vs Georgia all started when a man named Troy Leon Gregg was hitchhiking north in Florida with a 16 year old named Floyd Rayford Allen who only had 8 dollars between them. The two of them were given rides by two men named Fred Edward Simmons and Bob Durwood Moore. As they entered into Georgia the men stopped at a rest stop and Simmons and moore got outta the car Gregg told Allen “Were going to rob them” getting out and firing 3 shots causing Simmons and Moore to fall in a drainage ditch
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Had Wyrick not attempted the escape and committed the assault, he might have done a year and half or three years. In the words of the late, great movie star John Wayne, “life is hard but its harder when you’re stupid”. In 1952 Wyrick appealed his case and stated that the assault on Hodges had not been premeditated and that the average sentence for assault was five years. Wyrick's appeal went before the court, and was subsequently, turned down. The next morning Buff was in Ruby Jo Martin's cafe
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rock falls into a pond, it makes a big splash and sends out ripples that get smaller and smaller. I wonder if the 70-year-old case of the “Scottsboro Boys” still generates little waves in our national conscience. That case bounced through the state courts of Alabama and eventually the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1930s, touching raw nerves for years. The "Scottsboro Boys" were nine African American teens arrested for rape in 1931, on the words of two twenty-something women who were white. Lives were ruined
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Mockingbird Relates to Scottsboro “Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason” (Abraham Joshua Heschel). Through american history racism has been a characteristic of society, and will be upon us until there is no color variation among us. The Scottsboro tragedy was an incident during The Great Depression, where 9 black men were wrongfully convicted of rape. They were put on trial and discriminated against during their time in the justice system. PBS’s American
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Against position Victoria put her in; People at trial thought she was slow and stupid; Victoria wanted trial to hurry so death charges will be against Negroes The Trial * April 6, 1931 – 5:45 in the morning – nine Negroes locked in county jail at Scottsboro * Thousands of people from nearby countries and states – came for trial – only people with special permits allowed in The Return to Huntsville * March 25 – 10 in the morning; couldn’t find any work at mills, returned home to Huntsville
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Many people agree that the boys were innocent. After you read these paragraphs you can make a decision, of what you think, for yourself. It all starts with Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Then come in the 9 boys, and last but not least the long gruesome trials. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates claim they were raped, “When I put this in you and pull it out you will have a negro baby.” , is what Victoria Price stated to the courtroom as a quote of her attacker. The Girls were on the train to make money
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On April 29, 2017 at approximately 2019 hours, I responded to Advernir at Magnolia apartments located at 210 Welcome Way, Fern Park, Seminole County, in reference to criminal mischief. Upon arrival I made contact with witnesses Dana Connors, James Hargis and Dylan Morehouse, all of whom provided me with a sworn written statement. Connors, Hargis and Morehouse all stated they were swimming when they observed approximately five black males, who appeared to be teenagers playing basketball. They further
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