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The Story Of Victoria Price And Ruby Bates

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The Story of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates Introduction Victoria Price Upbringing Behavior Trial Rumors Her side Behavior Ruby Bates Upbringing Birth Job Homelife Life during trial Scottsboro Trial Accusations Acquittals Life during trial Conclusion The Story of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates Can a crime really be famous if it never occurred? Victoria Price and Ruby Bates filed charges against nine young black men on March 25, 1931 for raping them on a freight train from Chattanooga to Memphis. This trial divided the town. The whole process took over two decades. Throughout that time international demonstrations were held which highlighted racism. Victoria Price, one of the famous “victims” from the Scottsboro Trial, was born in …show more content…

She was never taught how to properly speak to others. Especially those in an authoritative position. When people would ask Victoria to answer difficult questions she would try to avoid the questions by being sarcastic and ignorant. Victoria was once asked about her sentence for adultery. She proclaimed that she had no idea what the word, adultery, meant.A common way in which Victoria expressed her anger was through fighting. In fact, Victoria had been seen multiple times fighting drunk with barely any clothes …show more content…

The Scottsboro Trial is known to be one of the biggest cases to happen in the civil rights movement. The case began on March 25, 1931, with nine young black men on a freight train. By April 9th eight out of the nine men were convicted and sentenced to death for raping Victoria and Ruby. The trial increased the awareness of the racial conflict going on at the time. Also, this crime strengthened the courts justice system after the civil rights movement. Like mentioned before, one of the two ladies confessed that the crime was not true, but the all white jury still wanted the eight men to be sentenced to death. The men who were going to be killed were Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew. Doctors examined both young women and had determined that no rape had occurred, but the jury did not care. The nine men were given two volunteer lawyers for the trial. The youngest boy, who was twelve, was sentenced to life in prison. By 1937, all the attorneys agreed that the four youngest men would be freed then the rest would be on parole for a

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