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Q
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Q0000063024
Address
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Cheraw, SC
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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for <u>file</u> Cheraw.S.C.
P.O.Box.No.408
HON.Gov.Graves. May 2.1931
Governer of [undecipherable] Alabama.
Birmingham Aa. Ala.
My dear Govenor,
Just a afew words in the behaves of those 8 BOYS that is to be alectuced. beleven
from what i have red in the daiy daily s and weeakly papers. thir case should bee 1
looked into. thurly befor thay should be aloud to die.
i my self beleav in law obedeno.whish those Purnshed.that are gildy andthose
go free that are insonec. i am only a law #3 abidnen sidzecm of thir race .whishing
to see justerst done them. as Ala. is now own tril
VERY TRULY YOURS
Lev.G.Byrd,
Levi G Byrd
(note: Govenor - Governor, dail - daily, weeakly - weekly, thir - thier, alectuced -
electrocuted, thurly - thoroughly, beleav - believe, purnshed - punished, whish -
wish, insonec - innocents, abiden - abiding, sidzecm - citizen, justerst - justice)
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SB_L_1931.05.02_0359
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 28, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Levi G. Byrd in Cheraw, South Carolina, to Hon. Gov. Graves in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Byrd, Levi G.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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An African American, Levi G. Byrd of Cheraw, South Carolina, writes to Governor Graves, who had already been succeeded by Governor Miller. Byrd urges the Governor to look into the case thoroughly, given the enlightening information he has found in the newspapers and his belief that people should be innocent until proven guilty.
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1931-05-02
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United States--South Carolina--Cheraw
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English
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Q
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Q0000063031
Address
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9234 Pace Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Sunday School Board of the National Baptist Convention
Stance
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Not guilty; takes not stance in regards to retrial or release but wants to stay the execution for further investigation
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C.H. DUVALL
MEMBER OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION
REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
ARIZONA
ADDRESS 9234 Pace Avenue
PHONE Los Angeles, California
June 1, 1931
PASTOR OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MISSIONARY REST AND
BAPT. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
CHURCH
ROYAL COMMANDER OF K.A.M.C
PERFORMS MARRIAGES: ATTENDES FUNERALS
CONDUCTS REVIVALS AND MAKES A SPECIAL-
TY IN RAISING FUNDS FOR THE LIQUIDATION
OF LARGE CHURCH DEBTS, ETC.
A CARD WILL REACH ME AT THE ABOVE
ADRESS
To the Governor of the State of Alabama,
His Excellency ,
Sir:
There is awaiting execution of eight or nine Negro boy's in
Scottsboro, Alabama and from what I can glean through the papers
of the Southland, there is somewhat a doubt in the mind of the
people as to their actual guilt. However, it would be a presump-
tion on my part to attempt in any way whatever to criticise the
finding of the excellent jury who heard the case.
Your Honor, I am writing this letter unsolicited because I
believe there is mercy in the heart of the great Governor of the
State of Alabama. Born a slave myself and at one time was the
property of the famous General Abrahan Buford of Kentucky. Hence
I have had some experience in my seventy-five years in dealing
with my people. It is true if we are not all angels, it is equal-
ly true that we are not all devils and I am quite sure that your
Excellency will agree with my in this statement. The weeping and
wailing of their mother's and of many of our struggling group have
forced me to write this letter begging you to use your preogative
and stay the execution until further investigation can be made.
Believing as I do, your Honor, should you do so it would not
only permit you to be a blessing to humanity, but it would certainly
relieve the conscience's of those who are in power and would certainly
be a great favor to we old ex-slaves who have always tried to work
in conjunction with the white people for the betterment of out
people.
My dear Governor, if there be the slightest chance for mercy
in this case do show it at this point and thereby wipe the tears
away from our old weeping eyes and save a blot from the great name
of Alabama, the home of the greatest industrial center in the world
for my people.
Again I beg you to stay this execution.
Your most humble servant
C.H. Duvall
C. H. CuVall
CHD: DH
(note: criticise - criticize, Abrahan - Abraham, preogative - perogative)
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SB_L_1931.06.01_0405
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 40, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from C. H. DuVall in Los Angeles, California, to the Governor of the State of Alabama.
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DuVall, C. H.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Baptist Church
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C. H. DuVall, a former slave, writes to ask Governor Miller to stay the Scottsboro Boys' execution. He also requests to have the case further investigated as a favor to the weeping mothers and ex-slaves, as he has heard a lot of doubt about the Scottsboro Boys' guilt. The letter is signed "your most humble servant."
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1931-06-01
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United States--California--Los Angeles
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English
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Q
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Q0000063238
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New York, NY
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Franky Abbott
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Not guilty; release
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Organization
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SB_T_1933.06.01_0978
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Telegram from workers in a mass meeting in Harlem in New York, New York, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Harlem workers
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Williams, Eugene, b. 1917; Wright, Leroy, 1918-1959;
Description
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Signed by "Committee of Five" workers from Harlem, this telegram requests protection for Eugene Williams and Roy Wright from "lynch mobs gathering near Decatur, Alabama" before their June 22 trial in Juvenile Court, as well as the immediate release of all the Scottsboro defendants.
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1933-06-01
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United States--New York--New York
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English
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Q
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Q0000063229; Q0000063230
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University of Denver, Denver, CO
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Interracial Commission of Denver, Colorado
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Transcription
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TRG
Division of Education and Psychology 1 Denver
University of Denver May 24 630 pm 1933
Denver, Colorado Colo.
Governor G.M. Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Ala.
University of Denver
College of Liberal Arts
University Park
Denver, Colorado
Division of Education and Psychology
May 19,1933
Governor G.M.Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Sir:
The Interracial Commission of Denver,Colo-
rado has authorized me to express to you their sentiment in
regard to the Scottsboro Case. We feel sure that your
sentiment is also thus stated: It is the desire of this
Commission that everything possible be done for the pro-
tection of the Negro boys and that justice be done
in handling the case. This statement is being sent because
it was felt that the expression of the sentiment would
be helpful to you and at the same time would enable us to
definitely take a stand against racial injustice.
Respectfully submitted,
T.R. Garth
For the Interracial Commission of
Denver, Colorado.
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SB_L_1933.05.19_0973
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 10, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from the Interracial Commission of Denver, Colorado in Denver, Colorado, to Governor G. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Interracial Commission of Denver, Colorado
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Interracial Commission of Denver, Colorado; University of Denver, College of Liberal Arts
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The Interracial Commission of Denver, Colorado, asks Governor Miller to do everything that he can to protect the Scottsboro Boys. The group aims to stand against racial injustice.
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1933-05-19
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United States--Colorado--Denver
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English
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Q
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Q0000063202; Q0000063203
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Carbondale, IL
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
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Not guilty; no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Murphysboro
May 1 11 am 1933
Ill.
Gov. Miller
Executive Mansion
Montgomery, Ala.
Officers:
W. F. Oliver, Vice Pres. Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters
Elkville, Ill. Dr. W. F. Mooreland, President
Thomas Ayer, Recording Sec. 311 N. Washington Ave.
Murphysboro, Ill. Carbondale, Ill.
F. B. Jackson, Corresponding Sec.
307 S. Marion St.
Carbondale, Ill.
Joe Blackwell, Treas.
Murphysboro, Ill.
Murphysboro, Ill.
April 26, 1933
Hon. Miller Gov.
State of Ala.
Dear Sir:
We the officers and members of the Jackson
County Organization of Colored Votes. Are reques-
ing you to exercise you executive authorityin the
Scotsburg Case. We hope you will consider that the
Eight Boys are human and not animals. As chief ex-
cutive of your state, We know that you took an
oath to support the Constitution of you state and
the United States.
We wish you would read Acts. 10; 34, Acts. 17;
26. and Gal. 6;7. Yours truly,
Thomas Ayer Sec.y
W.F. Mooreland Pres
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SB_L_1933.04.26_0940
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 1, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters in Carbondale, Illinois, to Hon. Miller Gov. in Alabama.
Creator
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Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
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The Jackson County [Illinois] Organization of Colored Voters asks Governor Miller to exercise his power in the Scottsboro case and to treat the nine boys like fellow human beings. They ask the Governor to support the Constitution of the United States and to read Acts 10:34, Acts 17:26, and Gal 6:7.
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1933-04-26
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United States--Illinois--Murphysboro
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English
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Q
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Q0000063219; Q0000063220
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2066 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Organization
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Member of Community Chest, Mme. C. J. Walker Home for Girls, Mme C. J. Walker Club (San Francisco, Ca.)
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Mme. C. J. Walker San Francisco, Calif. 2
Home for Girls May 12 930 pm 1933
2066 Pine Street
San Francisco, Calif.
Gov. B. M. Miller,
State Capitol,
Montgomery,
Alabama.
Mrs. Tulip Jones, President Mrs. M. White, Chr. Literature and Education
Mrs A. B. Clarke, First Vice-President Mrs. M. B. Thomas, Chairman Program
Mrs. Laura Davis, Second Vice-President Miss Alice Reece, Chairman Forestry
Mrs. Ceina M. Hughes, Secretary Mrs. V. Dodd, Chairman Domestic Science
1207 Powell Street Mrs. Jennie Duncan, Chairman Mother's Work
Mrs. B. L. Tyrrel,. Financial Secretary Mrs. Eunice Wilks, Chr. Social Committee
Mrs. L. B. Richardson, Treasurer Mrs. E. L. Congo, Chairman Religious Work
Mrs. M. Dennis, Chairman Business Mrs. K. P. Bond, Chaplain
Miss L. B. Porter, Parliamentarian Mrs. Alice Carson, Social Worker
Mrs. Addie Davis, Chairman Exchange Mrs. Leila Flippen, Chairman Music
Member of Community Chest
Mme. C.J. Walker
Home for Girls
Miss Maragret C. Roberts, Superintendent
2066 Pine Street
Phone WEst 8861
Board of Directors
Mrs. I. B. Ruggles, Chairman
Mrs. Tulip Jones Mrs. M. Dennis
Mrs. Mattie Bonds Miss Alice Reece
May, 10-1933.
Gov. B. M. Miller,
State Capitol,
Montgomery, Alabama,
Gentlemen:-
We are joining in with the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, in asking for the
unconditional release of the Nine
Scottsboro Boys.
Yours for Justice,
Mme C. J. Walker Club.
Ceina M. Hughes, Sec'y.
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SB_L_1933.05.10_0960
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Mme C. J. Walker Club, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Mme C. J. Walker Club (San Francisco, Ca.)
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Mme. C. J. Walker Club
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The Mme. C. J. Walker Club of San Francisco joins the NAACP in asking for the release of the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-05-10
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United States--California--San Francisco
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English
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Q
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Q0000063060; Q0000063061; Q0000063062; Q0000063063; Q0000063064; Q0000063065
Address
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Atlanta, GA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; retrial
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Individual Voices
Transcription
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ATLANTA, GA (Stamp: Red
APR 29 Washington
230 PM 2¢ 1932
1932 United
STA.B. States
Postage)
Gov. B.M. Miller
of
Montgomery Ala.
if not received return Back to
70 1/2 one Waugh Blvd
Atlanta GA
Scottsboro
A!
Atlanta GA.
April 28-32.
Dear ser.
I am riten you just a
few line to let you
here from me I am a
mother of one of the
ScottsBaro Boys Viola
Montgomery I have prayed
to god and I have razed
money and I have did
Every thing I no to do
try to get a new trile
for me sun and it
seam like my sun
will have to go to that
chair any how now I
(notes: ser-- sir, riten -- writing, here -- hear, ScottsBaro -- Scottsboro,
razed -- raised, trile -- trial, sun -- son, seam -- seem)
2
will come to you wont
you please have mursey
on my Sun and the
rest of the Boy you
no the Boys ant Guilty
of nothing But hobo.
listen I am Negro Woman
But god made me for some
cause I dont no all I no
I am here and I love my
sun just like your
mother love you and I
will say this I []
from the love of sin
and I ant a friad to die
because I have died one time
I ant gonta die no more
3
so I will ask you plese
have mursey on our Boys
I wish I could see you
and talce to you corse I
no you wood not listen
at me But they are a day
or coming we are gonta
be sarrie and we dont
make Frind and get in
union we are all gonta
be destroid Bleve it or
not for they are to much
sin going on now days
well I will close from
one of the ScottsBoro
Boys motha Viola Montgomery
(notes: plese -- please, mursey -- mercy, talce -- talk, corse -- course, no -- know,
wood -- would, gonta -- gonna, sorrie -- sorry, frind -- friend, destroid --
destroyed, bleve -- believe, motha -- mother)
4
Olen Montgomery motha
70 1/2 me Waugh
Blvd
so atlanta Ga-
plese anser my letter
(notes: motha -- mother, plese -- please, anser -- answer)
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Viola Montgomery in Atlanta, Georgia, to Ser (Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama).
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Montgomery, Viola
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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Viola Montgomery—the mother of one of the Scottsboro Boys, Olen Montgomery—writes to Governor Miller to plead with him for a retrial for her son. She has prayed to God, raised money, and does not know what else to do in order to prevent her son's execution. She believes that the Scottsboro Boys are guilty of no more than being hobos, and asks the Governor to think about things from a mother's perspective.
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1932-04-28
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063051
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
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Margaret Sasser
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Tuskegee Institute
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA
ROBERT R. MOTON
April 14, 1931.
Dear Governor:
I am writing to thank you for the promptness
and effectiveness of your action looking toward
the prevention of a horrible tragedy at Scottsboro
which, I am sure, had it transpired, would have
shocked the moral sense of the whole country, and
placed a stigma on out great state, wholly unde-
served for law and order which has been maintained
now for many years by her citizens.
The prompt and orderly process of punishing
crime meets with the hearty approval of all wor-
thy citizens in both races; but the end of the
law is justice and I am confident that in this
case you will see that such protection as the
courts can give will be meted out to the humblest,
the poorest - yes, and the blackest member of our
commonwealth.
Very sincerely yours,
R.R. Moton
c/
Hon. B.M. Miller
Governor of Alabama
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
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SB_L_1931.04.14_0606
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004236, Folder 1, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Robert R. Moton in Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, to Hon. B. M. Miller, in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Moton, Robert R.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Tuskegee Institute
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Tuskegee Institute president Robert R. Moton writes to the Governor of Alabama on the school's letterhead, applauding the orderly punishment of crime, but stating that he hopes the courts will be equally just with African Americans as with whites.
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1931-04-14
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United States--Alabama--Tuskegee
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Q
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Q0000063296; Q0000063297; Q0000063298; Q0000063299
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108-20 37th Dr, Corona, Long Island, NY
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Franky Abbott
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Negro Businessmen's League (Corona, N.Y.)
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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G. J. Mehler CENT. ANNE N. 14
108-20- 37th Dr. DEC 7 330 PM
Corona L. J. 1933 GR
Governor Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery Ala.
1993
Christmas
Greetings
Corona L. J.
Dec 4, 1933.
Governor Miller
I'm writing as the Pres.
of the Negro Business men's
Legue, we protest the
savage lynch verdict of
Heyword Patterson handed
down by your servant
Judge Callahan, Or as you
ordered this to be done to all
members of the Black Race
That gov have judiscution on
me as 1161 member order you
to cast your voice in behalf
of these Innocent Victims of their awful frame up.
We are sponsering funds
and protection to organizer
through out the South for the
sole purpose of reaching out
and snatching these victims
from gov who feed your children
from the blood of the Black men
and weoman.
we are also organizing
to the extent to lynch one of you
when ever a negro is lynched as you have lynched us for
over 250 (two hundred + fifty
years.
sec. Mr. George J Mehler,
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004241, Folder 6, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Negro Businessmen's League in Corona, New York to Governor Miller in Montgomery Alabama.
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Negro Businessmen's League (Corona, N.Y.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Negro Businessmen's League (Corona, N.Y.); Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912
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Signed by "Dr. George G. Mehlen" and representing 1,161 members, this letter from the Negro Businessmen's League (NBL) of Corona, New York, protests the 1933 verdicts from Judge Callahan's court and declares the Scottsboro defendants' innocence. It claims the NBL is raising funds to protect them from the Alabama courts and government. The letter ends: "We are also trying to organize to the extent to lynch one of you whenever a Negro is lynched as you have lynched us for over 250 years."
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1933-12-04
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United States--New York--Corona
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063186; Q0000063187; Q0000063188
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129th St. and 7th Ave., New York, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Not guilty; no stance in regards to retrial or release
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J. E. Liggan, New York, NY
2210 Fifth Avenue, Apr 2[] 930 pm 1933
New York City.
Honorable Governor Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Governor of the
State of Alabama.
-2-
4. We are living to-day in a world that is moving all the
time from one degree of intellect to another one that is
higher and still higher. White men have always had a better
chance to get some of this high and higher intellect.
It was sadly lacking in this jury that served at this trial.
5. It has also puzzled people all over the world why you as
Governor of the State of Alabama could read of this
terrible miscarriage of justice in every form, and you have
not lifted your voice once against it.
Surely as a man occupying such a high office as Governor
of the State of Alabama, <u>you must have some vestige of</u>
<u>humanity about you</u>; some sense of reason, to know that
these boys are innocent, and long ago should have been acquitted
The world at large knows and believes these boys are innocent,
then why spend Alabama's money foolishly in trials? This ex-
pense must come out of the pockets of the dwellers in that
particular county, either Scottsboro or Decatur, and I am
told the inhabitants of both of these places are the poorest
that we can find anywhere, both whites and Negros.
As Governor of the State of Alabama, everyone feels that
you could do much good in trying to set things right in this
(now) world wide case that has even reached other continents.
Do not let it be too late to do the good that you can do.
Remember Pontius Pilate, when Christ came before him on
trial and after hearing the evidence, what did he say?
"I do not find any wrong this man hath done." He then
called for a basin of water to wash his hands of the matter.
Governor Miller, do not stand ready to wash your hands, but
stand up and be a hero in the strife, especially when you
know how inhuman, how unfair, how unjust all of this pro-
cedure has been. A word from you in this great trial means
much in righting a great wrong.
6. Last but not least, may we hear a word from you. Our club
is most anxious to know your attitude in this famous trial.
Thanking you for an immediate reply, we are,
Sincerely yours,
Phyllis Wheatley Club,
Salem M. E. Church, N.Y.
Julia E. Liggon President,
2210 Fifth Avenue,
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SB_L_1933.04.21_0918
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Phyllis Wheatley Club in New York, New York, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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The Phyllis Wheatley Club asks why rape is punishable by death in Alabama and why the state disregards constitutional law by refusing to allow African Americans to serve on juries. The club asks about other specifics of the case and urges Governor Miller not to stand idly by, but to stand up for the Scottsboro Boys. They hope for a response.
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1933-04-21
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United States--New York--New York
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English
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Letter
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