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The history of racism in the courts has gone down throughout the last few decades. Each decade there is less discrimination as the last. In 1930s the Scottsboro boys may have not gotten a fair trial at first but today the courts have less racism and is given black men more of a fair trial. The Kobe Bryant case is one example of a more fair trial than the Scottsboro case. In 1931 a train that was stopped in Scottsboro because some men were thrown off the train. Nine black boys and two white women were taken off the train in Scottsboro. The nine black men were tried for rape of two white women, they got the death penalty the first time they were tried. Their cases were kicked back to Scottsboro from the supreme court. Each time they had a