THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
SCOTTSBORO TRIALS
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This quotation introduces the ultimate conflict in the text.
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The quotation predicts how the young men’s lives would end.
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The quotation makes the young men relevant to the text because originally they were not.
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The quotation does not fit into a summary.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How does the quoted sentence contribute to the development of ideas in the text? This sentence reveals the racial bias of the all-white jury that was chosen for the trial.
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: -The evi-dence at trial overwhelmingly proved that they were innocent. Ruby Bates recanted her previous testimony in Scottsboro. Bates testified that she was never raped and that she and Victoria Price made up the whole story to keep from being arrest-ed for vagrancy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Their trials began 12 days after the alleged crime and, despite ample evidence that they were innocent, eight of the nine were found guilty by all-white juries and sentenced to death in the electric chair.