Great Depression & New Deal Supreme Court cases 1. Powell v. Alabama (1932) a. Facts of the Case: Nine illiterate, young black men accused of raping two white women. Rape was punishable by death in the state of Alabama. The defendants’ attorney withdrew from the case, and the judge appointed members of the local bar, many of which withdrew from the case as well.
How the court didn’t do nothing about Emmett Tills murder till later in years they move a point of his murder forward were they could start fining evidence what happen to him and what happen to his body . Who was the person to kidnap him over several years . 5) Considering the work as a whole ,what universal theme(s) or lesson(s) does the book convey? How? What universal theme(s) or lesson(s) in the book convey is that it started the civil right movement .when back then they didn’t really do much on crime when it came to a black person being kidnap or killed.
His body was later found in a river. Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till, held an open casket funeral for Emmitt so the world can see what was done to her son. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were charged with kidnapping and murdering Emmett Till, but were later found not guilty by an all white jury. The injustice of the event was significant in serving as a fuel for the African-American Civil Rights Movement. The story of Emmett Till’s murder is not new to me for I have learned about it in middle school and high school.
Harper Lee represents racial prejudice, social prejudice and fear of the unknown in To Kill A Mockingbird. Lee demonstrates racial prejudice during the Tom Robinson trial, as well as social prejudice and fear of the unknown. She does this by describing the types of people in Maycomb and their fear of Boo Radley, which the children later witness in the story. To Kill A Mockingbird illustrates racial prejudice in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Harper Lee demonstrated racial prejudice throughout the Thomas Robinson case.
The Great Depression was in full swing and money was hard to come by. In his book, ‘Of Mice and Men’, John Protested against the treatment of disabled and of racial minorities which was very present at that time. One of the characters, called Crooks, is black. In the 1930’s this was a very bad thing to be as black citizens were considered second class and were treated as such. If there was an argument between a black person and a white person, the white person was right.
These states were white-supremacy states. Black Americans did not vote, and they were suppressed and oppressed in countless ways. The criminal justice system in the South was no friend of the southern blacks. Gerald C. Brandon, a southern white lawyer from Mississippi, told the facts about southern justice when he addressed the Mississippi Bar Association in 1910. He said “it is next to an impossibility to convict even upon the strongest evidence any white man of a crime of violence upon the person of a negro…I have even heard attorneys make the appeal to a jury that no white man should be punished for killing a negro.” He also stated “it is next to an impossibility to acquit a negro of any crime of violence where a white man is concerned” (Friedman
More than one reader has noticed some similarities between Scout and Lee herself and between Scout's friend Dill and Lee's own childhood friend, Like Scout, Lee's father was an attorney who defended black men accused of crimes; like Scout, Lee had a brother four years older. To Kill a Mockingbird book shows how Lee wants to expresses her feelings towards southern prejudice which shows mostly by the end of the story after the trial. The end of the story Harper Lee, in my opinion wanted her readers to show that life isn’t always fair yet things happen for a change in the end, and that change shows when Heck Tate tries to cover how Bob Ewell died.. Also Harper Lee wanted us to feel the terror that happened due to Bob’s actions towards Helen
In the novel, Atticus Finch whom is the town lawyer, is defending an African American known as Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was accused of allegedly raping Mr. Ewell's daughter. Even though he was innocent, his verdict was guilty, her was later murdered. The case of Tom Robinson brings uproar
Also, you have to factor in the time period of this trial, which was in the 1920’s to the 1930’s. During, such an old fashion time period there was the great depression and lots of racism and discrimination. Therefore one could argue that he is not guilty because the lack of evidence and the behavior and social structure of the city Maycomb, Alabama. I for one do not think Tom Robinson is guilty. Mayella Ewell was the victim that had been raped and the suspected rapist was Tom Robinson an African American resident of Maycomb, Alabama.
The fact that she has been influenced means that other individuals believe not possible for a black person to share the same manners and values as them (black people’s manners and values were not as worthy as white people’s in Maycomb at the time). Today, racism still very much exists, but less people believe that colored men are not respectable. Lynch mobs and segregation rarely occur anymore, and To Kill a Mockingbird makes the readers want to bring cultural inequality to an end, because it really illustrates that somebody’s culture or somebody’s skin color does not have anything to do with how respectable they are as a