Interracial Relationship -------- Matthew Shen by Aliasbutnot

KEYWORDS

MatthewAlias — 2022-11-30 06:08:14 UTC

Interracial
Relationships
Laws
Society
Judgment
Equality
Civil rights
Miscegenation
Marriage
Injustice
Neighbor
Jobs
Justice
Protests
Trials
*Related to words to the mental health and emotion with protests and court
Hopelessness
Hope

Source - Photography

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:32:31 UTC

This photograph taken in 1967, delineates African-American children walking on a sidewalk down the street along with white Americans beside them that were passing by.

The difference between the African Americans and the white Americans in this photograph was that the African Americans had signs behind their backs that were trying to get people walking by them to notice what was written on their signs.

The motive in doing so was to let people realize the segregated society they were in and try to desegregate in trying to change people's perspectives. At that time, African Americans and white Americans were segregated in their own schools, buses, bathrooms, etc, because society was racist.

There were rules to prevent black power from rising, specifically the one-drop rule, and the beliefs and biases at that time were very offensive toward African Americans.

In TKAM it didn't have such but there are protests from the colored folks on court.

_{Georgia state University Library. “African Americans Picketing for School Integration outside of the Atlanta Public Schools Building, Atlanta, Georgia, September 19, 1967.”}_{Digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu}_{, 1967, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/6120. Accessed 18 Dec. 2022.}

Source-Audio moving image.

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:41:38 UTC

This moving picture audio in 1961, describes an African American student talking to white Americans about law segregation that was practiced among schools and talks about laws that are against this.

At the time when the audio was recorded was when the African Americans started to fight for their civil rights and this audio may be only one in one thousand actions to fight for their rights, as we can hear from the audio the student is not very old, and in his voice, it doesn't sound like he is doing a gentle protest or anything, he is trying to inform us about the segregated society and laws that were used by lawyers and polices to enforce them.

The motivation behind this act is to let African-Americans in that era to realize that there is hope for equal civil rights and let them join the protest group and fight for equal rights, that they deserve.

_{WSB-TV. “BLACK SPOKESMAN TALKS about LAW SUIT against SCHOOLS WHO PRACTICE SEGREGATION.”}_{Civil Rights Digital Library}_{, 1961, crdl.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33060. Accessed 18 Dec. 2022.}

Source-Written document

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:47:11 UTC

This written document was written by Du Bois in 1936 about nature and evaluation of the biodiversity of the human race to start with and writes about how people in their society viewed interracial relationships and interracial marriage.

The written document he has written starts with an analysis of the diversity of different races and how the world worked with animals that have been performing miscegenation, later on reflecting on the society that he lives in, where racism against African-Americans is common and interracial relationships of all kinds did not work out really well, where people were hanged, and sentenced for falling in love with another. Du Bois wrote respectively questioning why people in their society couldn't view this as a natural law that has been performed for thousands of years, and why couldn't they accept the fact of White Americans falling in love with African Americans, and states out the fact that "no one is a pure race in any"(2).

The motivation for writing this article would be to inform people that interracial relationships with each other are normal and are a natural law that existed before the society of racism formed. People should accept the fact that miscegenation is normal and stop prejudiced beliefs.

_{Du Bose W.E.B. “Miscegenation, 1936.”}_{Credo.library.umass.edu}_{, 1936, credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b229-i063. Accessed 16 Dec. 2022}

Text Quote-About equality lectured from Atticus

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:50:41 UTC

"Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women – black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire” (Lee 217).

“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious – because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe – some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others – some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men"(Lee 218).

“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal – there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal"(Lee 218).

“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty” (Lee 218).

This paragraph spoken by Atticus demonstrates the point of everyone is created equal though some may be gifted with certain talents, they should not be discriminated against, and should be treated with full equality and no prejudice. Although Atticus spoke that all men are created equal but the society in his era was full of racism and discrimination towards African-Americans where their words with evidence supported would not help them in any way possible. Atticus in this passage is also not so confident that he would win the trial but he believed he had the chance, the chance to make an equal rights society in court, where everything is equal under the correct information given, where everyone is equal, though the possibilities are small but Atticus believes that there is a chance, a chance for equality and justice to exist, he speaks explaining that whether your race, there are bad people and good people, it is not that all African-Americans are bad people, people all have desires they have, people all have lied in their lifetime, they are all equal when they are born it is the decision that they make that determines their identity as guilty or not, he wants people to look in the way he is looking, a non-racist view that views everyone equal whether their race or their class in society, after speaking he hopes the white juries would make the correct decision of letting the innocent African-American go free, and live his normal life that he once had before being imprisoned in court.
"In the name of god, do your duty"(Lee 218).

_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Text Quote-White juries decision

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:51:24 UTC

A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson. The foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr. Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge...
I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty... guilty... guilty... guilty...” I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them. Judge Taylor was saying something. His gavel was in his fist, but he wasn’t using it. Dimly, I saw Atticus pushing papers from the table into his briefcase. He snapped it shut, went to the court reporter and said something, nodded to Mr. Gilmer, and then went to Tom Robinson and whispered something to him. Atticus put his hand on Tom’s shoulder as he whispered. Atticus took his coat off the back of his chair and pulled it over his shoulder. Then he left the courtroom, but not by his usual exit. He must have wanted to go home the short way because he walked quickly down the middle aisle toward the south exit. I followed the top of his head as he made his way to the door. He did not look up. (Lee 225)

Though Atticus in the trial represented that all men are created equal and tried to make the white juries change their minds and try to let them see things in his own way, a non-racist perspective where things are judged equally, the ugly truth is that no jury listened and changed their minds, all the votes were guilty with that Tom Robinson's life was done for, Atticus grew bitter after knowing the results, he thought he could have changed the racist society in court where a bit of equality existed and where everything is judged under the law but no. Atticus that told Scout to look up have disappeared, he did not look up. Atticus felt bitter he couldn't look up as he has tried his best in court to save Tom Robinson and where his efforts were nothing to be considered, left with votes of guilty and children's weeps.
Disappointed as Atticus is he only wanted rest. He couldn't change anything, he couldn't change the perspectives of the white juries in court, and he couldn't change the fate of Tom Robinson, he couldn't change the racist perspectives of society.

_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Text Quote-Injustice in court

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:52:19 UTC

When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
“Doesn’t make it right,” said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. “You just can’t convict a man on evidence like that – you can’t.”
“You couldn’t, but they could and did. The older you grow the more of it you’ll see. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. “There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low- grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves – it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it. I hope it’s not in you children’s time.” (Lee 235)

In the lecture that Atticus gives to his kids, he describes his perspective as a non-racist man and lawyer in the racist society that he is living in. In that era when a black man was in court, it was no less than a failed trial where white juries sitting listening to evidence are judging a black man. We can relate this to Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell's relationship, they have a bad relationship only because they are from separate races, Bob Ewell accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter Mayella when he sees Tom Robinson with Mayella, his perspective as a racist person believes that African-Americans are no better than trash and they don't deserve respect, which is his reason in accusing Tom Robinson of rape.
Tom Robinson loses hope when he ends up in court because he knows that there is no way in winning an unfair trial where white juries place their resentment of racial discrimination in the jury boxes that mean life in a black man's trial.
"In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (Lee 235)

_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Source-Written document

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 00:57:11 UTC

This written report was written in 1963 about crimes performed by white Americans against colored folks.

This written report reflects on how authorities in a racist society report the crimes that white Americans are responsible for. In the description, I received that it was told that these crimes were only a small proportion of crimes committed.

The motivation of this written report was to give African-Americans who have protested against the commission system that they believed was biased, to make the protesters assured they have written this report for them, although it only included a small proportion. Through the description, we can also know that in a racist society there are a lot of cases that were left unreported. Which reflects the biased society of how people don't tend to report the crimes that they are responsible against colored people in a racist society.

^{Mississippi Department Of Archives & History. “MS Digital Archives.”}^{MS Digital Archives}^{, 1963, da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/imagelisting.php?foldercheckbox%5B%5D=1045%7C99%7C45%7C%7C0. Accessed 17 Dec. 2022.}

CONCLUSION

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:04:03 UTC

As finished as it is, interracial relationships in the sources occur in, neighborhoods, careers, and conflicts. The different identities in interracial relationships such as being discriminated against, neutral bonds with each other, or friendly bonds with each other. All sources and analyses given have completed a logical cycle for the understanding of interracial relationships. Laws, society, judgments, prejudice, and the concept of equality, all compile together forming a tight bond that affects each other in society when confronted. Whereas the prejudice and beliefs held in the 1930s against African-Americans generated from sheer influences that have existed for more than a century, where African-Americans were used as slaves. As they have been used as slaves white Americans wouldn't have them to have equal rights with them. African Americans have to be discriminated against in society, where laws were created to prevent them from gaining power, and where prejudice of standing on top of African-Americans has formed. Through this prejudiced environment, there are still ones with kind hearts that help African Americans with laws as they understand the people they are. Only when understood would people stand up for the weaker minority of society, as the weaker minority raise signs of protest, tell stories, and make explanations with the knowledge they have learned would they be heard, and would the biased, prejudiced society slowly change. This change comes from a victory of the unfavored group in a biased society, it comes through protests made and were approved, only then would people come together and change the biased society little by little. Although they might encounter hopelessness, but when they persist in their protests they would be heard, and would this unjust society change, and would justice finally come, with equality finally given and prejudice with one another finally disperse. This process of gaining equality in interracial relationships in society can be shown in TKAM with the case of Tom Robinson. Though in TKAM the case failed justice came at last when Bob Ewell dies in the community he lives in, where his unjust acts of harming a crippled group were justified with the death of himself. On the other hand, the case in 1931, the Scottsboro boys case, demonstrates a more clear example with protests done by the colored folks being seen by a bigger authority that helped the Scottsboro boys where finally regain their freedom at last.

Text Quote-Atticus' optimistic view in a racist society

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:08:00 UTC

“Atticus–” Aunt Alexandra’s eyes were anxious. “You are the last person I thought would turn bitter over this.”
“I’m not bitter, just tired. I’m going to bed.” “Atticus–” said Jem bleakly.
He turned in the doorway. “What, son?” “How could they do it, how could they?”
“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep. Good night.”
But things are always better in the morning. Atticus rose at his usual ungodly hour and was in the living-room behind the Mobile Register when we stumbled in. Jem’s morning face posed the question his sleepy lips struggled to ask.
“It’s not time to worry yet,” Atticus reassured him, as we went to the dining-room. “We’re not through yet. There’ll be an appeal, you can count on that. (Lee 226)

This quote of Atticus demonstrated his optimistic view that he believes that he can still win the trial of Tom Robinson if the appeal is given. Though Atticus felt tired after knowing the results of the white jury's votes but after a night of rest, he still believes that he can change the point of view of the white jury in a racist society. The relationships between the white Americans and African Americans in this is really obvious as we substitute The white juries with the white Americans and Tom Robinson with the African Americans, the white Americans abuse their rights in a society that favors them more, but there are still a small amount of white Americans that are willing to fight the racist society with the unfavored ones.

_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Source-Photography

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:08:17 UTC

This photograph in 1931 demonstrates to us the nine African-American boys accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, and have guards that stand behind them as it looks like they are held.

The interesting bit that connects the Scottsboro boys' case with the book to kill a mocking bird is that they both have a trial for African-Americans being falsely accused rape in Alabama.

The motive behind falsely accusing the nine African-American in raping is an abuse of power, where the identity of an African-American alone is not powerful to stand up against the white Americans

^{Acme News Pictures. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America}

Text Quote-Atticus' identity as a lawyer

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:09:19 UTC

I know how that kind are about paying off grudges, but I don’t understand why he should harbor one – he had his way in court, didn’t he?”
“I think I understand,” said Atticus. “It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella’s yarns. He thought he’d be a hero, but all he got for his pain was... was, okay, we’ll convict this Negro but get back to your dump. He’s had his fling with about everybody now, so he ought to be satisfied. He’ll settle down when the weather changes.”
“But why should he try to burgle John Taylor’s house? He obviously didn’t know John was home or he wouldn’t’ve tried. Only lights John shows on Sunday nights are on the front porch and back in his den...”
“You don’t know if Bob Ewell cut that screen, you don’t know who did it,” said Atticus. “But I can guess. I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries,” Atticus chuckled. (Lee 265)

Atticus believes that being a lawyer would be to deliver the truth to the audience in court with evidence that was logical in proving the defendant innocent.
Atticus believes that he is doing the right thing as he proves Bob Ewell a liar, although in the record this court has recorded Bob Ewell's win where he knew white juries that would favor him instead of an African-American that was trash and worse than an animal in his racist perspective, in the town of Maycomb there were only a few people who believed in his words, the only reason he won in this court is that he was in a society that favored his race, and that made him very angry because he wasn't treated a hero that made Tom Robinson stay in his place as an African-American instead he himself was treated as a freak that couldn't make sense of everything in court.
Atticus as a lawyer presented the truth in front of every audience in court, which in his own belief he won the court, he won everyone's heart in the town of Maycomb, in a racist society that has prejudice and beliefs against African-Americans. Though Atticus and John Taylor didn't win in court they did present the truth that everyone was looking for.

_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Source- Newspaper

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:11:38 UTC

This newspaper published in 1931 informs people that the Scottsboro boys have failed their trial and people who support the Scottsboro boys have started to march for the rights of the Scottsboro boys, it includes the words and perspectives of the people who have marched for the rights of the Scottsboro boys.

The newspaper in another mean tells us about the march of people who are trying to set the Scottsboro boys free from the cage that has been keeping them hostage, unable to be free from the falsely accused case. The newspaper's picture also gives us a clear view of the people who are marching, it looks like there are only colored folks who support the Scottsboro boys from the failure of the first trial. Which again reflects to a racist society where white superiority stands.

The motivation for publishing this newspaper is only to inform people about what was happening in the Scottsboro boys' case and how people reacted toward the failed trial.
_{International Labor Defense, American. “Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution.”}_{Collections.si.edu}_{, 1925, collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=nmaahc_2010.55.59&repo=DPLA. Accessed 18 Dec. 2022.}

Text Quote - The different view points of interracial relationships

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:14:39 UTC

“They shot him,” said Atticus. “He was running. It was during their exercise period. They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started climbing over. Right in front of them–”
“Didn’t they try to stop him? Didn’t they give him any warning?” Aunt Alexandra’s voice shook.
“Oh yes, the guards called to him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They got him just as he went over the fence. They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much. Cal, I want you to come out with me and help me tell Helen.”
“Yes sir,” she murmured, fumbling at her apron. Miss Maudie went to Calpurnia and untied it.
“This is the last straw, Atticus,” Aunt Alexandra said.
“Depends on how you look at it,” he said. “What was one Negro, more or less, among two hundred of ‘em? He wasn’t Tom to them, he was an escaping prisoner.”
Atticus leaned against the refrigerator, pushed up his glasses, and rubbed his eyes. “We had such a good chance,” he said. “I told him what I thought, but I couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own. Ready, Cal?”

In this quote it tells us the identities that were seen in interracial relationships, to Atticus, Tom Robinson was a man that was accused of being raped which is not the truth after he proved Bob Ewell a liar, but to the guards that shot him, he was an escaping prisoner that ignored their warning and was seeking death. Atticus knew Tom Robinson and his family well, while the guards on the other hand have only known Tom Robinson as a prisoner that raped a white woman. This perspective caused the death of Tom Robinson at the very core. The other would be Tom Robinson growing tired and deciding that he would suicide, Tom Robinson in court revealed that he would not like to go to court which is the primary reason for his fleeing when he heard Bob Ewell. Going to court for Tom Robinson is like sending a bird into a cage, which would cause immense stress as he is waiting for his death. Tom Robinson when compared to Atticus does not have an optimistic view, he believes that his life is done for when he is sent to court and therefore doesn't believe in Atticus' ability to free him from the cage that has stripped him from his freedom. Though Tom Robinson respects Atticus he doesn't believe that Atticus would be able to save him on the court.
_{Lee, Harper, and Fred Fordham.}_{To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel}_{. Harper, 2018. Print.}

Source-Written document

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:15:34 UTC

This written document was written in 2013, and its analysis shows how people deal with stress under different kinds of traumas felt, which include depression, hopelessness, and mental illnesses.

This written document connects with To Kill A Mocking Bird's Tom Robinson where Tom Robinson loses hope and decides to suicide.

The document, states that distress in things that people are not comfortable with would potentially cause depression.
Which in the book could be what Tom Robinson was having after going through the court where his life ends. Tom Robinson thought that his life would end because even through Atticus' help with direct evidence the white juries still chose to give the vote of guilty. Which made him feel even more depressed and hopeless to the point in he decided that he would go make an attempt to escape, which caused his death.

_{^{U.S. Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control (NCCOSC).}}_{^{Post-Traumatic Growth}}_^._{^{Internet Archive}}_{^{, U.S. Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control (NCCOSC), 2013, https://archive.org/details/PTGWhitePaperFinal. Accessed 18 Dec. 2022.

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Source- Photography

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:16:56 UTC

In this photography that was taken in 1936, it shows that the Scottsboro boys have received help from the NAACP, and the female lawyers that are shaking hands with the Scottsboro boys are lawyers from the NAACP.

This photograph tells me how the Scottsboro boys are feeling after receiving help, it looks like they are grateful and it looks like they are happy to receive help from the NAACP which increases their chances of living.

The motivation for helping the Scottsboro boys is to help African-Americans to fight for civil rights in a racist society, because they are formed because of that specific reason.

Comparing what Tom thought and what the Scottsboro boys thought, they had two different mindsets. The Scottsboro boys received help from a bigger authority who are much more reliable than a lawyer alone, which gave the Scottsboro boys hope as they were counseled by Attorney Samuel Liebowitz, while receiving help from the NAACP making them more than hopeful for their survival on court.

_{^{Patterson, Britton. “Scottsboro Boys and Juanita Jackson Mitchell | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution.”}}_{^{Collections.si.edu}}_{^{, 1936, collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=npg_NPG.2011.25&repo=DPLA. Accessed 16 Dec. 2022.}}

Source-Photography

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:19:17 UTC

This photograph taken in 1976 by Frank Sikora, exhibited to me a few people who were sitting in front of a table declaring something with the microphone that is fixed in front of them.

The description below the photograph taken describes the person declaring something with the microphone as George Wallance, a governor. He has pardoned the last defendant that was alive from the Scottsboro boys case, named Clarence Norris.

The trial was won, a victory in history, where no black man has ever won a trial so big as being accused of a crime and let go, the most major thing is that the crime that the Scottsboro boys were accused of was rape, which its consequence was to be sentenced to death.

In To Kill A Mocking Bird Tom Robinson the African-American that was accused of rape was sentenced to death, though he had a lawyer like Atticus he couldn't win the first trial when all the evidence that was given to the white juries, while the other hand the other party didn't have any particular evidence to prove Tom Robinson as the person who raped Bob Ewells daughter Mayella Ewells, but still the white juries voted that Tom Robinson as a guilty man, it was that time when Tom Robinson knew his life was over and stopped fighting for his rights where he suicided in jail forcing the guards to fire their guns at him._{^{Sikora, Frank. “Clarence Norris, the Last Surviving Defendant from the “Scottsboro Boys” Trials, at a Press Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, after He Was Officially Pardoned by Governor George Wallace.” Alabama Media Group, 1976, https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/amg/id/100715. Accessed 16 Dec. 2022.}}

Background information/Secondary source-Written Document

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-12 02:23:27 UTC

The secondary information tells me about the play named The Great White Hope. The Great White Hope's name itself gives me a lot of questions, why is it named the great white hope is it white Americans being abused by an African American down the streets and there is hope to regain authority? No, The Great White Hope is a play that has an African American boxer that is in love with a white American which they are couples, the African American boxer is really strong and was beating the white Americans in the boxing area and white Americans pretty hard, and the white American doesn't like the way the African American is beating them so they their "great" dire of "hope" was to beat this African American. (Some more)

^{The Great White Hope."}^{Britannica School}^{, Encyclopædia Britannica, 26 Oct. 2013.}^{school.ebonline.cnpeak.com/levels/high/article/The-Great-White-Hope/605797}^{. Accessed 17 Dec. 2022.}

Secondary source - Written Document

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-14 07:32:42 UTC

The written document tells me about the civil rights movement, "the mass protest movement against racial segregation", this act happened mostly around the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Though this act happened mostly around those times this document also tells me that there are other civil rights movements that happened before this, for example, the NAACP was formed to protest for equal civil rights.

^{"American civil rights movement."}^{Britannica School}^{, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Oct. 2021.}^{school.ebonline.cnpeak.com/levels/high/article/American-civil-rights-movement/82763}^.

Formating

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-16 13:41:30 UTC

In this_________ written/taken/captured in ____
demonstrates to us.....

The motive behind this is.....

Source-Art

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-16 14:55:18 UTC

The artwork drawn by Reginald Gammon in 1931, shows the Scottsboro boys surrounding a white man which we know from the title who is Attorney Samuel Liebowitz. He is in the middle and looks like he is speaking with the Scottsboro boys.

When we read the description we will know that Attorney Samuel Liebowitz was counseling the Scottsboro boys about the trial. I believe that he is trying to tell the Scottsboro boys about their being released when they win the trial if they are willing to do so, although it might be a long trial.

The motivation in counseling the Scottsboro boys is to not let them lose hope as they are facing a racist society with racist juries, letting the Scottsboro boys believe that someday they will survive the trial and live coming out of it.

^{Gammon, Reginald. “Attorney Samuel Liebowitz and the Scottsboro Boys | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution.”}^{Collections.si.edu}^{, 1931, collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=acm_2003.0003.0001&repo=DPLA. Accessed 16 Dec. 2022.}

INTRODUCTION

MatthewAlias — 2022-12-19 02:48:51 UTC

With the Great White Hope serving as the starting point we have probably known what was going on with the relationships between White Americans and African-Americans during this time. Where racism stands, where interracial marriage and relationships are a practical illegal thing to do, the society doesn't allow African-Americans and White Americans to bond, where their beliefs come from the 1800s when they enslaved African-Americans, interracial relationships in society is not equal where white stands superior on the African Americans, but the African American slowly gain power as time passes by, where time changes perspectives, belief and prejudice.