How Did The Scottsboro Trials Changed

Relationships among races have evolved within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The majority of race-related conflicts were negative. Some of the trials that took place throughout this time period were the Scottsboro Trials, the Emmett Till Murder Trial, Loving v. Virginia, the Trial of Peter Liang, and the Johnson v. California trial. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a fictional trial that dealt with the relationship between a black man and white woman. Racial relations does not only deal with African-Americans and whites but other races including Asians, South Africans, etc. Overall, the relationship among races has not changed tremendously over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but it has changed. In To

The Scottsboro boys had to stay in the prisons that were considered inferior to whites because of their terrible conditions until the next trial in 1933. During this trial, the doctor who examined the girls after the supposed rapes acted as more of a help to the defense. The doctor said that there was semen found in the vaginas of the women, but the women came off as calm and had no vaginal damage or bleeding. At the end of the trial, Judge Thornton announced he would dismiss the death sentences and order a new trial. Of the nine boys, seven of them were held for six years until the hearing of Clarence Norris in 1937. The judge rushed into trial and days later sentenced him to death. Andy Wright was tried next and got sentenced to ninety-nine years ("The Trials of “the Scottsboro Boys."). Charlie Ween was sentenced seventy-five years. Ozie Powell was brought into court, but he had a new prosecutor. This new prosecutor was Thomas Lawson, and he dropped the rape charges from Ozie Powell and the four defendants who had not been tried yet: Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright. Lawson said that he believed Wright and Robertson were not guilty and Williams and Wright had already done enough time for their age, guilty or

Soon enough, they did and there was the black boy they sought ("The Emmett Till Murder Trial: An Account."). As Emmett followed his relatives into the house, Roy and the other two men followed them onto the porch. They said they were looking for a fat Chicago city boy. Otha, Roy, and John all searched the house until they found Emmett. When they did, Otha forced him to get dressed and threatened the Wright family so that they would not tell who stopped by. The intention of the abductors was to take Emmett to a one hundred foot drop that led to the Mississippi River, but somehow the fog caused them to end up at a barn. Here, they brutally whipped and abused him, along with shooting him. Roy and John decided that was not enough. They were going to tie something to his neck to weigh him down and toss his body into the Tallahatchie River ("The Emmett Till Murder Trial: An