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Monday, January 23, 2017

The Scottsboro Case

The Scottsboro subject was the cause of a gigantic sensation on civil rights in the United States. On March 25, 1931 an incident that would disaster the nation occurred. Nine African American males and six gabardine males got into a fight. Two women that were on the train accused the African American males of gang muff along with assault charges from the Caucasian men. every last(predicate) nine African American men were brought to essay. The resultant would stun the country. Lawyer afterwardsward lawyer would bail on the nine accused. Not scarce(prenominal) would their lawyers quit, save their sentencing would be changed fourth dimension and time again. This trial would get out the country in angiotensin-converting enzyme-half and go on agelong than any other trial in U.S. history.( Sorensen,6) The Scottsboro Case of 1931 had a major impact on society and on racial profiling due(p) to how they were handled and how the legal system failed them.\nIn 1931, the gra y states were still heavily segregated. Although African Americans had their freedom and males had the right to select by the 14th and fifteenth Amendments, the south was well cognise for blatantly ignoring these rights. After the urbane War the south did non take their defeat genuinely well, and they certainly did non use the 14th and 15th Amendments. Since they did not agree with the Constitution they created Jim exuberate Laws, the grandfather clause, a literacy test, and a poll tax to reject African American males from voting. All of these made it harder than it should have been for African Americans. The Jim Crow Laws not only allowed public segregation, but back up and enforced it, this was also due to the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case, and this quality allowed the completely insincere saying separate but equal. Plessy vs. Ferguson Case started after because of tweed only cars  on trains. Homer Plessy would lose this case and would have to pay the o.k. for sitting in the white section of the train sort of of the colored even though he was only one eighth African. The Separate Bu...

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