Examples Of Social Injustice In The Crucible

DZ Haynes

Ms. Paul 5th

English 3

14 November, 2014

Social injustice is a problem we have in the world not only today but also in earlier time. The Scottsboro Boys and Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible showed three great examples of social injustice we have today in America. Many innocent people’s lives were at stake and the only people who could save them were misrepresenting, manipulative, and egotistical behavior. Is a little white lie worth innocent people’s lives?

In the early 1500’s witchcraft was punishable by death. In The Crucible nine-eight people were accused of witchcraft for selfish motivations. In 1931, two young women accused nine African American Boys of raping them because they were crossing state line and they were prostitutes’.

It all started when Abigail Williams and eleven other girls were caught dancing in the woods, which is punishable by whipping, but instead of just saying yeah we was dancing in the woods and just took the whipping so played it off for a while until someone else said they were in the woods with the devil.That’s when she said “I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand."” so at this point it looks like they’re going to calm down, but no that’s when she had to basically say I was dancing with the devil but I wasn’t the only one.” That’s when she started saying “ I

” Now at this point in the story we know she is a corrupt minded individual who is mainly worried about herself but since we are people who in most case believe in a young lady that cries all the people convicted hung or that at least we have to infer.

In 1931 a group of boy that became known as The Scottsboro Boys. They were nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama.Several white teenagers jumped off the train and told the sheriff that they had been allegedly attacked by a group of black teenagers. When all of sudden two young ladies rush off the train and accused the boys of raping them.When in actuality most of the boys were not even in the same car as the young ladies.They were really accusing the boys of raping because they were prostitutes and they were crossing state line which was illegally, When you are rape there are more than likely some kind of sign of a struggle but when Dr.John Lynch ,and Dr. R.R. Bridges examined victims Ruby Bates and Victoria Price less than two hours after the alleged rapes occurred the two doctors found semen in the vaginas of both women, they found little evidence to support their claims that they had been raped ,so in all reality they had lied to get people over the fact that they were prostitutes. By the end all of the nine boys that were convicted and found guilty and all served at least eighteen years in a Alabama chain gang before being either pardon or