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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Oxford A | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| KCL | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kiel | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Bristol | Oxford B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Edinburgh | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |