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Segregated America

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Homer Plessy He was a New Orleans Creole shoemaker and civil rights activist who intentionally challenged Louisiana’s segregation laws by sitting in a white-only train car in 1892
Victoria Price She was a white actress and writer, she is known for her accusation of gang rape aboard a Chattanooga to Memphis freight train
Ruby Bates She was a white woman from Alabama who, along with Victoria Price, falsely accused nine young African American men—known as the Scottsboro Boys—of rape in 1931
Judge Horton He presided over the re-trials of the Scottsboro Boys
Marcus Garvey He was a black nationalist who founded the UNIA in 1914. He promoted racial pride, economic independence, and the ‘Back-to-Africa” movement
Samuel Lebowitz He was a Romanian-born American criminal defense attorney who helped the Scottsboro boys
WEB DuBois He was a pioneering African American sociologist, historian, author, and civil rights activist
Booker T. Washington He was an African American leader, educator, and author who founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. He championed economic self-reliance training for Black Americans as the best path to equality
How many trials did the Scottsboro boys go through? 4
What law did Plessy violate by boarding a Louisiana train? Separate Car Act of 1890
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson? U.S. Supreme Court decisionthat upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
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” was constitutional? Plessy vs. Ferguson
What party supported the Scottsboro boys from the start? The communist party
Which “victim” disappeared in the middle of the Scottsboro trials? Victoria Price
Who opened the very famous Tuskegee Institute? Booker T. Washington
Who was the prosecuting attorney for the State of Alabama in the Scottsboro case? A real estate attorney, Samuel Lebowitz
The Supreme Court stated, “If one race is inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane.” In what case did the court make this statement? Plessy vs. Ferguson
Who set aside the verdict in the 2nd Scottsboro case? Judge Horton
Who recanted everything in the 2nd Scottsboro trial while on the stand? Ruby Bates
Why did Price and Bates lie about the 9 boys attacking them? Her and Ruby Bates were traveling illegally on a freight train and feared the consequences of being caught by the authorities
What was used to punish someone without legal process, usually by hanging, for a perceived act of breaking social norms? Lynching
Which of the early civil rights leaders was the first black scholar to get his doctorate at Harvard? WEB Dubois
Who believed that African-American needed to expand opportunities through education? Booker T Washington
Poll taxes and grandfather clauses were devices used to deny the right to vote to who? African-Americans
Who founded the “Black Star Line”? Marcus Garvey
What was the Niagara Movement? It was a 1905 civil rights organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter that demanded full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
Who was arrested for mail fraud & deported to Jamaica? Marcus Garvey
What was Norris v Alabama? the Court unanimously reversed the conviction of Clarence Norris, one of the "Scottsboro Boys," ruling that the systematic exclusion of qualified African Americans from jury service in Alabama violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
What did Garvey, DuBois & Washington all have in common? They were all civil rights leaders
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