Answer: c. Represented progress in the cause of civil rights for African-Americans. It also
(d). reflected the racism that was prevalent in the South during the 1930s.
Explanation: In the Scottsboro case, Nine young black Americans ages 12 to 19 were charged with raping of two white women in a train near the small town of Scottsboro, Alabama.
The case was vital in the pursuit of civil rights and protection. The case also led to two landmark Supreme Court rulings that established important rights for criminal defendants and a fair hearing. The Supreme Court also reversed the judgement because the jury was only made of white people and there was no fair hearing of the case.
Their trials began and eight of the nine boy having been found guilty of the charges by a racist all-white juries were sentenced to death in the electric chair despite reasonable evidences that they were not quilty but innocent.
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In 2005, police misconduct in New Orleans had reached an all-time high. In the weeks before and after Hurricane Katrina, several high-profile beatings and unjustified shootings by police led to intense federal scrutiny of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), including a 2010 U.S. Department of Justice investigation and a 2013 federal consent decree to overhaul policies and promote greater transparency and more civilian oversight of the police force.
In 2017, the NOPD aspires to serve as a model for how to reduce police misconduct. Rather than standing silently by—or joining in on a fellow officer's brutality—New Orleans
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