Social Attitudes and Mores of the South, 1900s to 1950s

<Tab/>The Southern way of thinking for many whites remained constant from the 1900s to 1950s. There was racial intolerance and discrimination. Southern tradition was embedded into everyone, black and white. The causes for these prejudiced positions stemmed mainly from fear and many cared over from the time of slavery. The blacks on the other hand, were split. Some agreed with the complacent doctrine of Booker T. Washington, while others pushed …

…prejudices many white Southerners held. The boys were charged for raping of two white women, what whites thought all black males wanted to do. Their attorney was a Jewish, Northerners who received the backlash of the South's despise of North interference. Even though the case held no real or strong evidence to convict the boys, they were sentenced guilty three times. Alabama refused to admit its fault. It held it prejudices until the very end.