Scottsboro - 2023 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

After the communist Southern Worker newspaper publicized the plight of defendants in this city, the International Labor Defense successfully appealed their case to the Supreme Court. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Alabama city where a bogus trial resulted in the Supreme Court case Powell v. Alabama. Governor George Wallace pardoned Clarence Norris in 1976 after he was sentenced to death in this city.

ANSWER: Scottsboro (The defendants were the Scottsboro boys.)

[10e] Though originally hesitant to get involved, this civil rights organization eventually joined with the Communist Party in defending the Scottsboro boys. Its historical members include Ida B. Wells and Thurgood Marshall.

ANSWER: NAACP [or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]

[10m] The Southern Worker was based in a city in this state, though it claimed to be from Birmingham in order to evade police. In another trial in this state, Clarence Darrow defended a schoolteacher accused of violating the Butler Act.

ANSWER: Tennessee (That trial was the Scopes Monkey trial.)

<JS, American History>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	20.00	75%	75%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	33%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	N	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	N	5	12.00	40%	60%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	2	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Emory A	Georgia B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Duke	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
James Madison A	NC State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
George Washington B	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Boston College	MSU A and Friend	0	0	10	10
Farrellmagnetism	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	0	10	20
Texas C	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	10	0	10
HCC	TAMU	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Durham	10	10	10	30
Oxford	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick	0	10	0	10