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Burck, Jacob. "THE CASE OF THE "SCOTTSBORO BOYS"" To Kill A Mockingbird and
the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage | EDSITEment. The Daily Worker, 25
Mar. 1931. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. <http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/kill
mockingbird-and-scottsboro-boys-trial-profiles-courage>.The International Labor
Defense's (ILD) involvement in the Scottsboro case, more than any other event,
crystallized black support for the radical political movements, especially the Communist
Party, in the 1930s. This website will be helpful to me because it will give facts that I
need to know. "Free the Scottsboro Boys" Meaning, some people are on the Scottsboro
boys side.
Carter, Dan T. "Scottsboro Boys, Trial and Defense Campaign (1931–1937) | The Black
Past: Remembered and Reclaimed." Scottsboro Boys, Trial and Defense Campaign
(1931–1937). Louisiana State University Press, 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
<http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/scottsboro-boys-trial-and-defense-campaign-19311937>.The case went to the United States Supreme Court in 1937, and the lives of the
nine were saved, though it was almost twenty years before the last defendant was freed
from prison. This is helpful to me because it tells about the time they had to go to jail.
"Illegally riding the rails" Meaning, they were doing things they weren't supposed to, to
find a job..
Linder, Douglas. "JURIST - The Trial of the "Scottsboro Boys"" JURIST - The Trial of
the "Scottsboro Boys" Jurist Legal Intelligence, 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 14 Sept.
2012. <http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm>.Every month, Professor Douglas
Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, developer of the
Famous American Trials website, introduces JURIST readers to one of legal
history's famous trials. This would help me because it gives information that will
be helpful. "Dream Team." Meaning, no dreams were accomplished.
Linder, Douglas O. "Scottsboro Boys." Scottsboro Boys. THE TRIALS OF "THE
SCOTTSBORO BOYS", 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 13 Sept. 2012.
<http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html>.No crime in
American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many
trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white
girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern Railroad. This website with be helpful
to me because it give lots of information that I need to know about the Scottsboro
Trials. "ALL NEGROES POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY GIRLS AND ONE
WHITE BOY WHO WAS HELD PRISONER WITH PISTOL AND KNIVES
WHILE NINE BLACK FIENDS COMMITTED REVOLTING CRIME."
Meaning they all ganged up on the girls.
Mazelis, Fred. "World Socialist Web Site." Documentary on Scottsboro Case Distorts
1930s Struggle against Racism in US South. Worlds Specialist Website, 25 Mar.
1931. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/scota23.shtml>.Thus began the notorious Scottsboro case, a racist frame-up that led to
years of trials and legal appeals, along with mass protests in the US and around
the world. This gives many facts about the Scottsboro boys. “Help [for the
defendants] came from the most unlikely of sources.” Meaning, People you would
never think of, are the ones taking up for the boys.
Pitts, David. "U.S. GOVERNMENT The Three Branches Judicial Branch Criminal
Justice in the U.S." U.S. GOVERNMENT The Three Branches Judicial Branch
Criminal Justice in the U.S. Criminal Justice in the U.S, 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 14
Sept. 2012. <http://usinfo.org/enus/government/branches/pitts3.html>.This year is
the 70th anniversary of a trial that captured the imagination of the nation for
almost two decades. The case of the Scottsboro Boys v. the state of Alabama
became a cause célèbre, was a major precursor of the U.S. civil rights movement
and led to two landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings that enhanced fundamental
rights for all Americans. This website gives great information about the
Scottsboro boys. "equal protection under the law" Meaning, everywhere should
have protection.
Price, Victoria. "People & Events: Ruby Bates, 1915 - 1976." PBS. PBS, 25 Mar. 1931.
Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_bates.html>.At the time she
accused three black young men of raping her, Ruby Bates was seventeen years
old. She lived, like Victoria Price, in a poor neighborhood of Huntsville and
worked in the mills. Wages in 1931 were half what they had been just two years
ago, and that was when work was available. This will be helpful because it will
help give information about the girls who were raped during the Scottsboro trials.
"I want to tell you that the Scottsboro boys were framed by the bosses of the south
and two girls. I was one of the girls and I want you to know that I am sorry I said
what I did at the first trial, but I was forced to say it. Those boys did not attack me
and I want to tell you all right here now that I am sorry that I caused them all this
trouble for two years, and now I am willing to join hands with black and white to
get them free." It was all a lie.
Ransdall, Hollace. "The First Scottsboro Trials." The First Scottsboro Trials. REPORT
ON THE SCOTTSBORO, ALA. CASE, 27 May 1931. Web. 13 Sept. 2012.
<http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_hrrep.html>.Hollace
Ransdell was a young teacher, journalist, economist, and activist asked by ACLU
officials to go to Alabama to investigate and report on the controversial trials of
the Scottsboro Boys that had just taken place. This sight is very useful because it
tells exactly what I need to know about the Scottsboro Trial. "The Nigger must be
kept in his place." Meaning, the "nigger" needs to be kept in Jail for what he did.
Robinson, Tom. "Historical Context: The Scottsboro Trials." ThinkQuest. Oracle
Foundation, 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 14 Sept. 2012.
<http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/scottsboro/historic.htm>.Tom Robinson's trial bears
striking parallels to the "Scottsboro Trial," one of the most famous-or infamouscourt cases in American history. This have lots of facts about the scottsboro boys.
So it is very helpful. "Scottsboro Trial," Meaning, there was concequesces for that they
did.
Robinson, Tom. "To Kill a Mockingbird: Scottsboro Trials." To Kill a Mockingbird:
Scottsboro Trials. Scottsboro Trials, 25 Mar. 1931. Web. 14 Sept. 2012.
<http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/mockingbird/scottsboro.htm>.There are many
parallels between the trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird and one of
the most notorious series of trials in the nation's history ‚ the Scottsboro Trials.
This hastons of facts that will be helpful to me. "prostitute" meaning, someone
who sleeps with others for money..