Mississippi Trial

To Kill a Mockingbird and Mississippi Trial, 1955 are novels that tell the story of young children living through a period of racism. In realistic fiction novel, To Kill a Mocking, and the nonfiction novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe, tell the stories of two Negro men suffering the wrath of white men. We get a look into the cruel situations the blacks had to endure. Characters in the books watch innocent men get convicted, watch juries turn away from justice, and how the characters grow with the knowledge they gain. Lee and Crowe’s trials have the same idea when it comes to their causes, development, and outcomes, like watching their justice system give no justice at all, truly changes the characters attitudes. To begin, Lee

The audience watches as the witnesses came to stand and listen to every detail very carefully. As Heck Tate tells his side, he states, “found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in the corner and said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson. Heck Tate only knew the story that he had heard from Bob and Mayella. He does not know the whole truth behind it, meaning they could tell him any lie. On the other hand, in Mississippi Trial, 1955, they got testimonies from very reliable resources, and yet it wasn’t enough. Emmett Tills uncle saw the men take away his nephew and stated in his testimony, “They shoved past me and went looking in the back bedrooms, and a minute later they dragged Bobo from his room, shaking him and sayin’ hateful things. Poor old Bobo was trying to get dressed as they dragged him to the front door” (Crowe 168). The jury heard it all by a bystander, everything that went down, and yet, they still see the goodness in the whites. In addition, the testimony from the deputy was barely useful. They rely so much when really they know the least. In Mississippi Trial, 1955, the deputy tried to tell his story he obtained from the defendants and court stated, “Your honor, this testimony has no relevance to the charges of murder for which this court is convened, and I move that it be disallowed from jury and the trial records” (Crowe 172). They saw that the deputy’s point of view was only based off what he had heard and not from what he saw. In to kill a mocking bird the deputy was so entrusted and no one saw that he was just repeating the same words that he got from the victims. The courtrooms were full of native racist whites, which had no conscience and any sympathy about the