Question
In 1977, workers in this industry displayed a large banner calling Maynard Jackson a “liar” during a nationally televised baseball game. The “Invaders” urged students to skip school during a strike in this industry that prompted James Lawson to form the Community on the Move for Equality. This industry is the subject of Michael K. Honey’s book Going Down Jericho Road, which details a “plantation mentality” under Mayor Henry Loeb. This industry’s use of (*) “wiener barrel” trucks declined after Echol Cole and Robert Walker’s deaths triggered a strike that popularized the slogan “I AM A MAN.” During a strike in this industry, a gunman at the Lorraine Motel shot the giver of the “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. For 10 points, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while supporting Memphis workers in what industry? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 93.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 112.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 117.86 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 103.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 104.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 83.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Khang Le | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | Social credit go vroom | 73 | 15 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Lambert | 74 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | Florida Tech | 76 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 77 | 10 |
Jason Hong | Madmen and Specialists | bingy academy | 78 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT | Penn State | 80 | -5 |
James McCurley | Harvard | Brandeis B | 84 | 10 |
Vivian Malouf | In the Mood for Buzz | Old and Young | 84 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 84 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Truman | 85 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 87 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Georgia Tech C | 87 | 10 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | SGV Ventures | 88 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 89 | 10 |
Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 91 | 10 |
James Wang | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 91 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 95 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Waterloo Basic | 95 | -5 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Georgia Tech A | 95 | -5 |
Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Purdue A | 95 | 10 |
David Nickel | Purdue B | Notre Dame | 95 | 10 |
Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton | Warwick A | 95 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Jason et al. | 95 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 101 | 10 |
Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Warwick C | 101 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | SIUE | 106 | 10 |
Ragylan Sivakumar | MIT | Tufts A | 107 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 110 | 10 |
Patrick Torre | Maryland | Pitt | 112 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Metropolitan A | 113 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 117 | 10 |
Joshua Li | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy C | 117 | 10 |
Lance Hulme | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | LSE A | 118 | 10 |
Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | Amherst | 121 | 10 |
James Mangraviti | Boston College B | Clark Wilson | 121 | -5 |
Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Clark House | 125 | 10 |
Samanyu Bhupalam | Innovation Academy B | Georgia Tech D | 129 | -5 |
Andres Cordoba | Yale | Tufts B | 131 | -5 |
Rachel Bentham | Cambridge B | Bristol | 132 | -5 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF B | UCF B | 134 | 10 |
Ben Fleishman | BU | Bowdoin C | 135 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Yale | 135 | 10 |
Eve Maramba | UF C | USF | 135 | 0 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | Valencia | 135 | 0 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF A | 135 | 0 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 135 | 0 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 135 | 0 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 135 | 0 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Toronto B | 135 | 0 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 135 | 0 |
Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | McGill A | 135 | 0 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Milton | 135 | 10 |
Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy B | 135 | 0 |
Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Imperial B | 135 | 0 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick B | 135 | 0 |