The Impact of the Scottsboro Boys on American History After watching the Scottsboro video, i came to the conclusion that the subject of it had an enormous outcome for the rest of history. Over the course of the Scottsboro boys trial, everything that happened sculpted both negative and positive events in this significant era. It affected thousands of lives, and impacted the rest of American history. Over hundreds of years, the theme of racism still continues until this day, we as Americans still experience the wrath of racism; maybe not as much, but it certainly hasn't gone away. All nine of the Scottsboro boys trials had an astonishing outcome on our nation and people, and it also portrayed many other events that happened in American history like World War ll, and the Civil Rights Movement. During this time period, blacks and whites were segregated; and this video does an exquisite job on showing how the Scottsboro boys had an impact on their society, and today's as well. …show more content…
This was essentially the first time in history since pre civil war that whites and blacks came together as one and put all of their differences to their sides. When the trials were publicized, nearly the entire nation was sitting back, watching the trials of the nine boys. There were people starting riots and conflicting with the public left and right, yelling "Free the Scottsboro Boys," and "We have the right to speak up!" Initially, they are responding to the nation in a way that sends a huge message for the boys and opens up the unification of blacks and