Scottsboro Boys & Willy McGee Trial Similarities & Differences Essay

Wathcing the story of the Scottsboro Boys and listening to the story of Willy McGee really had me take a second thought on how whites were treated on comparison to blacks. First off, these two stories were alike in the fact that they both were about black men being accused of rape towards a white woman. Also, they were similar because each of the trials were several trails that kept getting prolonged to the next one. These two stories were different because in the Scottsboro Boys case, most of the accused were set free. And in the Willy McGee case, he was sentenced to death by electric chair. Another difference is that when they were going to execute Willy McGee, they had an announcer, a crowd, and a worldwide audience to listen to his death. Although these cases had there differences they are much alike in the fact that they were concerning a black man and white women and how they could be treated unfairly in the court of law.