because it teaches lessons in todays world on how to do things.
The Scottsboro trial does not appear in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, but the Tom Robinson trial is partly based on a real trial in Scottsboro.
the scottsboro trial has lasted for about 45 years.
Samuel Leibowitz
1931
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marked the stirring of civil rights movement and established important rights for criminal defendants.
the scottsboro trial has lasted for about 45 years.
The scottsboro trial was a trial about 9 negro youths being falsely accused of raping two white women on the Southern Railroad. there is a movie about it called "Heavens Fall".
Samuel Leibowitz
civil rights movement
blacks not minding their business
1931
There were 3 trials in all. 1st trial - went to the Alabama Supreme Court and then the USA Supreme Court 2nd trial - went straight to the USA Supreme Court 3rd trial - final trial with results
The Scottsboro Boys are famous due to a scandalous trial that accused the boys of a crime. Now due to their skin color the boys were given an unfair trial and wrongfully found guilty.
It parallels the Scottsboro trials...
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Scottsboro, also, almost every trial black people have ever been in.
The significance was because it was the first time the Supreme court stepped in due to the extreme sentencing of the Scottsboro boys, which was death.