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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Homer Plessy | A mixed race man who challenged segregation laws by traveling in a white railroad car |
| Victoria Price | She was one of the two women who accused the 9 scottsboro boys of raping her. Her actions supported the idea of a black man always wanted to be with a white woman, so the men were all wrongly accused of raping them, and landed them in prison. |
| Ruby Bates | One of the two girls who had wrongly accused the 9 Scottsboro boys of rape. She later testified that the men had never harmed her, but the public thought that she was being paid to lie by the communists. |
| Judge Horton | The judge in charge of the Scottsboro boys case, who despite the public’s views, assured to let them have a third trial which ruined his career as a judge. |
| Marcus Garvey | A black politician that presented the idea of sending the black Americans back to Africa and their home countries since they should be proud of their land. |
| Sam Leibowitz | The Jewish criminal offense attorney that traveled from New York to Scottsboro to defect the Scottsboro boys, who eventually lost the case for the men since he was Jewish. |
| WEB DuBois | He thought that equal rights should be given to all, but that you must educate yourself. |
| Booker T. Washington | He thought that blacks must accept their position in society, and earn their way to being equal with the whites. |
| How many trials did the Scottsboro boys case have? | 4 trials |
| What law did Plessy violate by boarding a Louisiana Train? | The separate car act |
| What was Plessy vs Ferguson | They believed that if things were equal, they could be separate. This was constitutional. |
| Who wrote Souls of the Black folk? | WEB DuBois |
| Who believed in the back to africa movement? | Marcus Garvey |
| What Supreme Court case ruled separate but equal to be constitutional? | Plessy vs Ferguson |
| The ________ party supported the scottsboro boys from the beginning. | Communist |
| Which victim disappeared in the middle of the trials? | Ruby Bate |
| What institute did Booker T. Washington open? | Tuskegee |
| What is the prosecuting attorney for the state of Alabama? | Thomas E. Knight |