Yesterday, March 3rd, we learned about the Scottsboro trials. Nine innocent African-American boys were accused of rape and sentenced to death, but the trials were reviewed multiple times until the sentences were reduced to long imprisonment or the suspect declared not guilty. We wrote diary entries from the point of view of either the supposed rape victims, the convicted men, or the jury. My group wrote as Haywood Patterson, one of the convicted men.
Today, March 4th, we learned about the Brown vs. Board case on the segregation of public schools. The African American schools were generally less well maintained, so several people tried to sue the board of education and make the schools more equal or combine them.
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