Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s

Target entity: Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s
Context triple: [Scottsboro, hasHistoricEvent, Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s]

• A. Murder of Emmett Till
  The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
• B. Shadrach Minkins case
  The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
• C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
  The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
• D. Loray Mill strike of 1929
  The Loray Mill strike of 1929 was a major and violently suppressed textile workers’ labor strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, that became a landmark conflict in U.S. labor history.
• E. Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham
  Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court struck down a city ordinance that gave officials broad discretion to deny parade permits, reinforcing First Amendment protections for civil rights demonstrators.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s
Target entity description: The Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s were a series of infamous criminal cases in Alabama in which nine Black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women, becoming a landmark episode in the history of racial injustice and civil rights in the United States.

• A. Murder of Emmett Till
  The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
• B. Shadrach Minkins case
  The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
• C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
  The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
• D. Loray Mill strike of 1929
  The Loray Mill strike of 1929 was a major and violently suppressed textile workers’ labor strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, that became a landmark conflict in U.S. labor history.
• E. Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham
  Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court struck down a city ordinance that gave officials broad discretion to deny parade permits, reinforcing First Amendment protections for civil rights demonstrators.
• F. None of above. chosen