To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay
By: Jessica Kanterjian
To: Mme Brooks
Date: Wednesday ,November 9th 2011
To kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Trials
1. A)Write a 200 word summary of the Scottsboro trial , based on Miss Randall’s account
The Scottsboro Case started off with a group of nine young African American men being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young boys aged from thirteen to twenty. They were accused of raping two white women (Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. A fight broke out between two groups of men .The blacks won and threw the whites off the train . The whites reported this to the local sheriff , and the train was stopped in Scottsboro,Alabama, Everyone on board was arrested . Victoria Price was in serious trouble because her friend ruby bates was only 17 . It’s a federal crime to take someone younger . In order to get out of trouble , Victoria and Ruby said that the black men had raped them. A doctor said that the two women had had sexual relations before the train ride and that there were no bruises of them to show that they were force. Still after being tested the two women said that all nine had raped them. After the examining of the doctor locals said that the young men were guilty and should be treated severely only for the thought that they had dared to assault a white woman. The boys were all divided in three groups according to their age and on how they were going to be punished. They were all far away or didn't have families to get in contact with and inform what was happening. Out of the nine, eight were sentenced to death ( they we’re killed by an electric chair) And one was sentenced to life prison. The Scottsboro case is about nine innocent African American boys accused of raping two white girls.
1.B) How does miss ransdall’s adult point of view of a rape case –examined second hand – compare with Scout’s first hand, child’s point of view of Tom Robinson’s case? Which do you prefer , and why ?
To start off I think miss ransdall and scout
To: Mme Brooks
Date: Wednesday ,November 9th 2011
To kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Trials
1. A)Write a 200 word summary of the Scottsboro trial , based on Miss Randall’s account
The Scottsboro Case started off with a group of nine young African American men being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young boys aged from thirteen to twenty. They were accused of raping two white women (Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. A fight broke out between two groups of men .The blacks won and threw the whites off the train . The whites reported this to the local sheriff , and the train was stopped in Scottsboro,Alabama, Everyone on board was arrested . Victoria Price was in serious trouble because her friend ruby bates was only 17 . It’s a federal crime to take someone younger . In order to get out of trouble , Victoria and Ruby said that the black men had raped them. A doctor said that the two women had had sexual relations before the train ride and that there were no bruises of them to show that they were force. Still after being tested the two women said that all nine had raped them. After the examining of the doctor locals said that the young men were guilty and should be treated severely only for the thought that they had dared to assault a white woman. The boys were all divided in three groups according to their age and on how they were going to be punished. They were all far away or didn't have families to get in contact with and inform what was happening. Out of the nine, eight were sentenced to death ( they we’re killed by an electric chair) And one was sentenced to life prison. The Scottsboro case is about nine innocent African American boys accused of raping two white girls.
1.B) How does miss ransdall’s adult point of view of a rape case –examined second hand – compare with Scout’s first hand, child’s point of view of Tom Robinson’s case? Which do you prefer , and why ?
To start off I think miss ransdall and scout