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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CedarvilleMichigan C010010
KenyonOhio State B010010
Michigan BMichigan A010010