Saturday, November 12, 2016
The Scottsboro Case
The Scottsboro Case was the sustain of a huge paladin on civil rights in the United States. On promenade 25, 1931 an incident that would shock the population occurred. Nine African American males and six Caucasian males got into a fight. Two women that were on the fix accused the African American males of gang rape on with assault charges from the Caucasian men. whole gild African American men were brought to trial. The outcome would amaze the state of matter. Lawyer after lawyer would bail on the nine accused. Not only would their lawyers quit, moreover their sentencing would be changed clock time and time again. This trial would split the country in half and go on longer than whatever other trial in U.S. history.( Sorensen,6) The Scottsboro Case of 1931 had a study impact on fellowship and on racial pen due to how they were handled and how the judicial scheme failed them.\nIn 1931, the southmostern states were understood heavily segregated. Although African Ameri cans had their freedom and males had the right to vote by the fourteenth and 15th Amendments, the south was well known for blatantly ignoring these rights. After the Civil contend the south did not payoff their defeat very well, and they for sure did not enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. Since they did not rack up with the Constitution they created Jim vaunt Laws, the gramps clause, a literacy test, and a pollard tax to deter African American males from voting. All of these make it harder than it should oblige been for African Americans. The Jim Crow Laws not only allowed human beings segregation, but supported and enforced it, this was also due to the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case, and this fiber allowed the completely hypocritical manifestation separate but advertÂ. Plessy vs. Ferguson Case started after because of neat only cars  on trains. bulls eye Plessy would lose this case and would have to pay the fine for seated in the white dent of the train instead of the sloped even though he was only one 8th African. The Separate Bu...
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