Groups F and G: The Scottsboro Boys
Your job is to become an expert on the Scottsboro Boys. Click on the link below to start learning about them. When you are finished, answer the questions below. Be sure to read carefully because you will be teaching your classmates everything you know about The Scottsboro Boys and their trials.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_leibowitz.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html
Questions:
1. Who were the Scottsboro Boys? How did they get into so much trouble?
2. Where and when did the Scottsboro Boys' original trial take place? How do you think this affected the outcome of their trial?
3. What does the NAACP acronym stand for? Why did the NAACP decide not to help the Scottsboro Boys?
4. The Communist Party came to the aid of the Scottsboro Boys. How did the South perceive the Communist Party, and how was it similar to the perception of blacks? What was the Communist Party's hidden agenda in providing aid to the Scottsboro Boys?
5. The Scottsboro Boy were not provided with adequate defense lawyers. Please list at least 3 ways in which the defense lawyers were inadequate.
6. Describe the trials. Were they fair or unfair? Please include at least 3 supporting facts to back up your description.
7. Were the Scottsboro Boys ever pardoned of their convictions?
8. The Scottsboro Boys' trial took place during the childhood of To Kill A Mockingbird's author, Harper Lee. Compare and contrast the trials of the Scottsboro Boys with the trial of Tom Robinson. How are the trials similar? How are they different?9. Where was Samuel Leibowitz from? Why was he recruited to take the case of Haywood Patterson?10. Leibowitz admits after his defeat that he was " a hindrance" to boy's case? In what way could Leibowitz been a hindrance to the trial?
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_leibowitz.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html
Questions:
1. Who were the Scottsboro Boys? How did they get into so much trouble?
2. Where and when did the Scottsboro Boys' original trial take place? How do you think this affected the outcome of their trial?
3. What does the NAACP acronym stand for? Why did the NAACP decide not to help the Scottsboro Boys?
4. The Communist Party came to the aid of the Scottsboro Boys. How did the South perceive the Communist Party, and how was it similar to the perception of blacks? What was the Communist Party's hidden agenda in providing aid to the Scottsboro Boys?
5. The Scottsboro Boy were not provided with adequate defense lawyers. Please list at least 3 ways in which the defense lawyers were inadequate.
6. Describe the trials. Were they fair or unfair? Please include at least 3 supporting facts to back up your description.
7. Were the Scottsboro Boys ever pardoned of their convictions?
8. The Scottsboro Boys' trial took place during the childhood of To Kill A Mockingbird's author, Harper Lee. Compare and contrast the trials of the Scottsboro Boys with the trial of Tom Robinson. How are the trials similar? How are they different?9. Where was Samuel Leibowitz from? Why was he recruited to take the case of Haywood Patterson?10. Leibowitz admits after his defeat that he was " a hindrance" to boy's case? In what way could Leibowitz been a hindrance to the trial?