Question

Pressure to end this system surged in 1922 when a White man from North Dakota named Martin Talbert was flogged to death in Florida. For 10 points each:
[10h] What practice, which otherwise mostly targeted African-Americans, provided over half of Alabama’s state revenue by the 1890s? Atlanta is turning the old site of the Chattahoochee Brick Factory into a park with a memorial to this practice.
ANSWER: convict leasing [or convict lease system; prompt on answers referring to prisoners and/or incarcerated people doing some kind of labor]
[10e] Convict leasing drew on a provision in this constitutional amendment, which otherwise abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, but permits it as “punishment for crime.”
ANSWER: Thirteenth Amendment
[10m] This NAACP co-founder and leading anti-lynching activist described convict leasing and lynching as the “twin infamies” of the South. She documented such abuses in The Red Record and Southern Horrors.
ANSWER: Ida B. Wells [or Ida Wells-Barnett]
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UNC C (UG)Maryland B (UG)010010
Claremont AAppalachian State0101020
Texas A&M AIowa A0101020
Michigan State AIowa B0101020
Rice ASorbonne010010
UW AUBC A0101020
CedarvilleMichigan C010010
KenyonOhio State B010010
Michigan BMichigan A010010
EdinburghCambridge A0101020
Oxford ADurham A010010
Cambridge BImperial A0000
KCLOxford C010010
KielDurham B0101020
BristolOxford B0000
SheffieldCambridge C0101020
Imperial BWarwick010010
Texas ATexas A&M B0101020
Georgia Tech AGeodesic0101020
Brown ABrandeis A0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Tufts BHarvard A0101020
Harvard BYale B010010
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020
Brandeis BDartmouth B0101020