JURY TRIALS FOR THE CLASSROOM Bringing the Scottsboro Boys in the U.S. History Classroom Scottsboro Portfolio Assignment Scottsboro Boys Quiz Resources from the Chicago Historical Society Norris v. State of Alabama

Scottsboro Boys Quiz

Rationale

This quiz is intended to assess your overall understanding of the information that we have studied on the Scottsboro boys. As we have discussed, you are responsible for the information presented in the document set and in related material that we have studied in class, not just for the information presented in the documents you used to create your portfolio items.

Section I: Viewpoint on the Scottsboro Boys

Directions

For each of the following statements, please write the letter of the group that would be most likely to express the given viewpoint. You should use only one letter for each statement, you may use a letter more than once, and you may not use every letter.

1. Scottsboro boys
2. Supporters of the Scottsboro boys' original trials and convictions
3. Members of the ILD
4. Members of the NAACP
5. Supreme Court justices who heard the Scottsboro case

1. Lawyers working for the ILD exploited the Scottsboro cases to help their fundraising and membership drives.
2. The nine Scottsboro boys were arrested primarily because they raped two white women on a train in Alabama.
3. Poor blacks in the South and workers throughout the United States should work together to get fairer treatment under the law.
4. Blacks are generally not included on jury rolls in Alabama or in other Southern states because they lack the qualifications for jury service.
5. Because African Americans were systematically excluded from jury rolls in Alabama, we find that the original trials in the Scottsboro cases were unconstitutional and require new trials for the convicted men.

Section II: True or False?

Directions

For each of the following items, write an A in the appropriate space if the statement is true; if the item is false, replace the underlined word(s) to make the statement true.

1. The Scottsboro boys were arrested and tried in Alabama during the 1930s.
2. Several prominent African American writers associated with the Gilded Age produced art and literature to support the Scottsboro boys.
3. During the years that the Scottsboro boys' arrests and trials occurred, Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States.
4. The Scottsboro boys were accused of rape by two white women named Victoria Principal and Ruby Tuesday.
5. There is evidence to suggest that the novel To Kill A Mockingbird was inspired at least partly by the Scottsboro boys' trials.

Section III: Short Answers

Directions

For each of the following five questions, please write your response in the space provided on your answer sheet. Please write in sentences.

1. Identify (name and briefly define) four historically significant events that occurred during the time period of the Scottsboro boys' arrests and trials but that were not directly associated with the events at Scottsboro.
2. Explain the conflict over the selection ofjuries for the original Scottsboro trials.
3. Identify the basic viewpoints of two groups that were directly involved in the Scottsboro boys' trials.
4. Identify and analyze at least three similarities between the trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro trials.
5. Choose one primary source document that you read during this project. Explain why you believe that I chose to include it in the document set that you received for this unit.

Section III Short Answers
(Please complete four of the five questions. Feel free to continue on the back of this paper.)