Reference no: EM133429211
Questions:
1. What crisis was growing in Alabama and how did Bryan Stevenson and Eva Ansley want to fix this growing problem?
2. What has Bryan Stevenson learned to accept about clients upon their first meeting, why?
3. By the 1950s, what businesses began to grow in Alabama? How did Black people fare in these growing businesses?
4.So, when it came to Walter McMillian, who is a poorly educated Black man, according to the white people of Monroe County, what is the only explanation for Walter McMillian's success?
5.In the case of Walter McMillian, what is one of the biggest issues people have with him and the beginning of his downfall? How does this downfall put him on the police radar?
6. How do the "anti-miscegenation statutes" play into Walter's case?
7. Lynching had occured not long before Walter's affair, and when Walter is pulled over by Sheriff Tate he threatens Walter with lynching, what is the purpose of these lynching threats?
8. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction period, how were the now freed slaves and Black people for the next 100 years and counting still denied basic human rights.
9. How do Ralph Myers and Karen Kelly get involved with each other?
10. How does Myer's name get put on the map?
11. How does the ABI ensure that Myers and McMillian are in cahoots? What did this reveal about the relationship between Myers and McMillian?
12. Walter's arrest can be blamed on two people, who are they and why are these two to blame?