The Scottsboro case:

a. was refused a hearing by the Supreme Court.
b. was publicized by the Industrial Workers of the World.
c. represented progress in the cause of civil rights for African-Americans.
d. reflected the racism that was prevalent in the South during the 1930s.
e. established legal principles that greatly restricted the definition of civil liberties.

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.

D- reflected the racism that was prevalent in the South during the 1930s.

Explanation:

The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. The trials and repeated retrials of the Scottsboro Boys sparked an international uproar and produced two landmark U.S. Supreme Court verdicts, even as the defendants were forced to spend years battling the courts and enduring the harsh conditions of the Alabama prison system.

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