The Scottsboro Boys On the night of March 25, 1931, a deputy sheriff in Paint Creek Alabama stopped a freight train travelling from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They arrested nine black men ranging in age from 12 to 20 on the train. They also found two young white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, dressed in men’s’ overalls. Price claimed she was raped by six of the young men, while Bates claimed she was raped by the other three. All of the nine men were arrested and taken to the Jackson County jail in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Dylan Fiolek Prejudice in the South Racial prejudice was beyond horrible in the 1960s. A time to kill was a movie about a white lawyer who defends a black man for shooting to white woman. The black man raped and beat his daughter. To kill a Mockingbird was a book about a white lawyer who defends a black man. They accuse him of raping and beating a young white woman.
They spend the night in the police cell when they got the message from god telling them to kill every bad man. The brothers agreed to get rid of every evil man in Boston togrther with their friend Rocco. Connor learns of a meeting of Russian syndicate bosses at a hotel. The brothers entered the room from the ceiling accidentally hanging on a rope. They managed to kill all the underbosses before they say a prayer and kill the The Fat Man.
In the movie "A Time To Kill", two white men rape a 10 year old black girl. The girl's father, Carl Lee Hailey, knowing that the two men will be free in ten years, decides to kill them. Being sentenced to death, he asks young white lawyer Jake Brigance to defend him in in court against tough Rufus Buckley. While taking Carl Lee's case, Brigance encouters many difficulties since it is the hardest case of his life and has to send his wife and daughter away for safety. But finally Brigance gets Carl Lee free by telling the emotional story of the raped little girl in the court.
Since then 2,800 rapists were convicted and sent to jail, including one hundred and twenty-one who raped repeatedly. Because this law was passed it became mandatory for repeat offenders, however only eight of those offenders were sentenced to chemical castration. Around the country there are increasingly severe sex offender laws that are convincing criminals to take drastic measures to try to prove that they are fit to be in our society. As drastic as resorting to a treatment so brutal that it hasn’t been in use in the justice system for decades. This is known as voluntary castration and was first offered in the state of Texas for repeat offenders.
"Hounding the Innocent" Summary In “Hounding the Innocent” by Bob Herbert talks about how there has been more people being pulled over just so they can be humiliated by the police. The people that are being humiliated are Hispanics and African Americans but it’s really the minorities. The minorities are being stopped for no reason just so they can be seen as the “bad” people. More than 45,000 people have been stopped in 1997 and 1998. The State Police in Oklahoma humiliated an Army General Gerald for two hours and his son because they were African American.
Five Socs, including Bob and Randy, get out of the blue mustang and want to fight. Ponyboy spits at them and a Soc grabs him and holds his head under the fountain water until he passes out. When he wakes up, he sees Bob dead and Johnny holding a switchblade. Johnny says that he killed Bob. They go find Dally and he gives them clothes, fifty dollars, and a loaded gun.
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.
I did a little extra research over the movie just to get some of the other facts maybe they couldn’t put in the movie because of length. Clarence Brandley is an African-American who, in 1981, while a janitor at a high school in Conroe, Texas, was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Ferguson, a 16 year-old student. Brandley was held for nine years on death row. After lengthy legal proceedings that ended in the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Brandley was freed in 1990. Suspicion immediately fell on two of the custodians, Brandley and Henry (Icky) Peace, who had found the body.
Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, used Tom’s race and physical strength to imply that Tom was just another stereotypical black man who targeted a fair skinned female. Mr. Gilmer hinted that because Tom was strong and coloured, Tom would rape and beat a white woman. Not only was Tom discriminated against on the stand, but after Tom was sent to the slammer, Tom was killed and shot at multiple times after he was already dead. “ ‘Seventeen bullet holes in him. They [the police] didn’t have to shoot him that much.’ ” (235).