Similarities Between Scottsboro And To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about an african american man who has there life on the line because his being falsely accused of raping a white woman. To Kill a Mockingbird was based off the true story of the Scottsboro boys who were a group of african american teenagers who all had their lives on the line for being falsely accused of raping two white women. Both of these cases are similar because they both have to do with african american men who are being falsely accused of rape, deal with racial injustice or hatred, and are both represented by kind white lawyers.

Both the Scottsboro case and the Tom Robinson case, where about black men that had their lives on the line for being falsely accused of rape. On April 9th,1931 an Alabama judge sentenced

The Scottsboro boys were catching a ride aboard a freight train, a fight broke out between the boys and, some other white boys, outnumbered the white boys ended up jumping of the train or being thrown off the train(Source B). The two girls who accused the boys of rape where Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. They were afraid they were going to get arrested for prostitution when they saw the police so they accused the boys of rape(Source B). In comparison in the book To Kill a Mockingbird a black man name Tom Robinson was being convicted of rape and sentenced to death, for being falsely accused of raping a white woman(Novel). Tom Robinson was walking home from work one day when a white woman named Mayella Ewell asked him to come