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. W. E. B. DuBois was one of the principal founders of this organization.
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.)
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford A | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |