THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women
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a Georgia jury convicted all of the black youths
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the Supreme Court reaffirmed the death penalty convictions
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All these answers are correct
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eight of the convicted youths were executed for crimes they did not commit
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, two white women who were also riding the freight train, faced charges of vagrancy and illegal sexual activity. In order to avoid these charges, they falsely accused the Scottsboro Boys of rape.
Detailed explanation-2: -The case of nine young African American men accused of the rape of two white women in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, was a milestone in the emergence of a national civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scottsboro case, major U.S. civil rights controversy of the 1930s surrounding the prosecution in Scottsboro, Alabama, of nine black youths charged with the rape of two white women. The nine, after nearly being lynched, were brought to trial in Scottsboro in April 1931, just three weeks after their arrests.
Detailed explanation-4: -That drama revolved around nine Black youths charged with raping two white girls on a freight train in Alabama. The youths became known as the Scottsboro Boys, and the case became a window into the South’s unremittingly brutal system of justice.