Scottsboro
...ilty of rape and given a death sentence for a crime that none of them committed, nothing seemed fair. The last of the Scottsboro Trials took place in 1937 when still not all of the nine Scottsboro boys had been cleared of the crime. The Scottsboro Trials took on national attention. It paved the road for the civil rights movement and proved to the nation that the law must be color-blind. The Scottsboro Trials existed only because racism exists. The Scottsboro Trials are the most famous court cases of all time. These trials have proven to America in a very direct way that the law must be color-blind. It has conduced to the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and has helped change more than just the nation’s attitude when it comes to the matters of race. The trials have ch...