Yesterday, we read a timeline about the Scottsboro Boys Trial. We were put in groups to write diary entries from the point of view of different people during the trials. My group got Ruby Bates, one of the two women who accused the nine boys raping her and her friend Victoria Price. Ruby felt guilty due to her actions and eventually confessed to the rape charge being a scam.
Today, we learned about the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The case was five different cases that were combined. These cases, mostly from the South, were from people against the segregation of schools. White and African American children went to different schools that were supposedly "separate but equal," but African American children often received lower quality school supplies and teachers. The Supreme Court ruled that school districts could no longer be segregated as a result of the case.
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