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The Scottsboro Trials

The Scottsboro Trials. By Derek and Hemant. What was it?. In the year 1931, nine young men were accused of raping two white women This was a massive spark to race conflict and a turning point for the world back in the 1930s. How did it all happen?.

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The Scottsboro Trials

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  1. The Scottsboro Trials By Derek and Hemant

  2. What was it? • In the year 1931, nine young men were accused of raping two white women • This was a massive spark to race conflict and a turning point for the world back in the 1930s

  3. How did it all happen? • On a freight train from Chattanooga to the city of Memphis, in the year 1931, the nine men named Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Willie Roberson, Charlie Weems, Eugene Williams, Ozie Powell and the two Wright brothers had gone abroad to find work hauling wooden logs on the Missouri river • Supposedly a fight broke out between the white and black men on the train when a white man stepped on Patterson’s hand

  4. How it all happened-the aftermath • After all the bruises and scrapes, the white men were shoved out of the train while nearing its stop at Stevenson, Alabama • The men told the Stevenson stationmaster about the incident, which he could take no more of • This was why the news was reported to Sheriff Matt Wann of Jackson County and then to Deputy Charlie Latham who lived in Paintrock Alabama-the place where the train was to stop next • His orders were to "capture every negro on the train”. A search party was called in to ready themselves for the trains arrival • At two in the night, when the train stopped at the station all 48 cars were checked and eventually the black men were found and arrested

  5. Ruby Bates and Victoria Price • While the search took place in the train, two white homeless women, in their attempt to escape, ran out • They accidentally ran straight into the search party of around 50 white men • When taken into custody Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were found to have been raped by the nine men on the train • They were let out of jail as the charges were never put against them while the nine other men had to stay • After word spread through the city Sheriff Matt L. Wann promised the people of Paintrock quick trials for the men, before they would be sent to the electric chair for their executions

  6. The Trials • On March the 30th, on the day of their trial, the nine black youths were pled not guilty, in which they only admitted to Price’s rape • Most of the Scottsboro boys were sentenced to harsh punishments after they were convicted

  7. Relations to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird • As one of the most famed books of all time ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was very much based on the Scottsboro Trials • It was basically a reminder of racism in the past and the conflict between black and white people in those days

  8. Bibliography • WEINER, Mark Stuart Black Trials, 2006 • Scottsboro Boys-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys • The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

  9. The End

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