A 1983 Navy SEAL operation in this country rescued Paul Scoon from house arrest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country which was invaded by the U.S. in Operation Urgent Fury, six days after its prime minister Maurice Bishop was killed in a coup.
ANSWER: Grenada
[10e] Name this state whose Communist Party-organized “Sharecroppers Union” initiated numerous protests in cities like Birmingham.
ANSWER: Alabama [or AL]
[10e] The U.S. invasion expelled troops from this country and the Soviet Union from Grenada. CIA-trained exiles failed to overthrow this country’s dictator Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba]
[10m] The Alabama Communist Party was instrumental in the defense fund of this group of nine black teenagers falsely accused of assaulting two women on a train.
ANSWER: Scottsboro Boys [or Scottsboro Youths; or Scottsboro Teens]
[10m] After the invasion of Grenada, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were elevated as principal advisors through a bill named for William Nichols and this senator. The “Daisy ad” targeted this Arizona Republican in 1964.
ANSWER: Barry Goldwater [or Barry Morris Goldwater; accept Goldwater–Nichols Act]
[10h] Kelly argued that the demise of the Alabama Communist Party came from its absorption into the CIO, which was led by a man with this first and last name. A Georgia Representative with this first and last name who died in 2020 was the chairman of SNCC (“snick”).
ANSWER: John Lewis [accept John L. Lewis or John R. Lewis; prompt on John or Lewis]
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