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Bailey Island, ME
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Margaret Sasser
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Bailey Island, Maine
May 28, 1933
To Governor B.M. Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Sir,
Like many other citizens of
this country-indeed, like many
of other countries- I am deeply
interested in the outcome of the
so-called "Scottsboro' Case," and
while you, as Governor of the
State of Alabama, are neither
judge nor jury, nor court of last
resort, your position gives you
opportunity to exert a powerful
influence on public opinion, and
in ensuring a fair trial, and a
just acceptance of evidence.
Do we want our people to be
classed with the Nazis of Germany
and the despots of Russia? We
cannot escape it f we do not
see that every citizen, + every
class of citizens, shall have fair
trial when accused, and that
they receive the same interpre-
tation of the law as in given to the
most favored among us- for
example, requiring proof "be-
youd reasonable doubt"- of
the commission of the crime,
before conviction.
Bailey Island, Maine
My sister and I are natives of Maine,
but what touches the honor of one
state touches all. Moreover, for
many years we hace lived in
Norfolk, Virginia, + have been
impressed by the good relations
maintained between the white
+ colored races there. Recently,
a colored man was accused of
knocking down and robbing a
white woman in a lonely alley.
The charge of criminal assault
was also made. The man was
convicted + sentenced. But when
new evidence was found, not
[Bailey Island Maine] only was the man freed, but the
woman and one of the witnesses
were convicted of perjury- all in
an orderly manner, + with no
raising of the race question, or
any undue excitement, All
honor to the Old Dominion!
I beg of you, as far as you
can exert your influence, for
the good name of your state,
do not let Alabama fall below
her sister state of Virginia in her
reputation for justice.
"Noblesse oblige"- and truly
patriotic Americans cannot
bear the thought that we
Bailey Island Maine
would not- or dare not- extend
absolute fairness and justice
to the humblest- even to the
meanest- of their citizens.
My sister joins with me in
this appeal to you, + will
add her signature to mine.
Very respectfully,
(miss) Mary Leland Adams
" Sarah Root Adams
I am writing a substantially iden-
tical letter to Judge Horton, + as I do
not know his address, will you be
so kind as to complete the adress
on the enclosed envelope?
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SB_L_1933.05.28_0984
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Miss Mary Leland Adams and Miss Sarah Root Adams in Bailey Island, Maine, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Adams, Mary Leland, Miss and Miss Sarah Root Adams
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Nazism
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Three women from Bailey Island, Maine, ask Governor Miller to exert his influence in the Scottsboro case and write that the American people would be like the Nazis of Germany or the despots of Russia if they did not ensure that everyone had a fair trial with sound evidence. They also write of a similar case is Norfolk, Virginia, that was handled much differently than the Scottsboro case, with the African American male freed and the white woman convicted of perjury. They urge Governor Miller and Alabama to follow suit in administering justice without race prejudice.
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1933-05-28
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Q
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Q0000063275; Q0000063276; Q0000063277
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415 Bellville St., Evergreen, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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International Labor Defense
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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415 Bellville st, EVERGREEN
Evergreen, Ala Dec 1 PM
ALA.
Govner B, M, Miller
Mont gomery , Ala
MARY J. BIGGS
415 BELLVILLE ST.
EVERGREEN, ALA.
Dcoe First 1993
415 Bellville st
Evergreen, ala
Govner B, M, Miller Dear Sir,
May I, Ask A Favor Of you . And Your staff, The Internation
labor Defencse Ask A contribution of me in the be half xxx
of the Scottsborio New Trial For HaywoodPatTersonIn fact
Alof thoesNineBoys they Have had in Prisen Al this time
Since I did not have the donation I take This Methord
of helping Knowing That you are in the judge seat will you
order out the gardes in the time of their trial ifneed
bee, to protect them and there witness
very trully mary J, Biggs
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Mary J. Biggs in Evergreen, Alabama, to Govner B. M. Miller.
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Biggs, Mary J.
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912; International Labor Defense
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Mary J. Biggs, an Alabamian, writes that the International Labor Defense asked her for a contribution to the Scottsboro Boys' fund. Because she did not have the money, she decides to write to Governor Miller to ask that he protect the boys.
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1933-12-01
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Q
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Q0000063129; Q0000063130
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Cincinnati, OH
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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Newport, KY.
Apr 18 630 pm 1933
Governor Miller
Montgomery, Alabama.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
April 17, 1933.
Scottsboro
Governor Miller,
Alabama.
Dear Sir:
I am taking time to do something I have intended doing for several weeks
but other duties and obligations always interfered. Or perhaps, like
thousands more, it has been negligence on my part. I have been intense-
ly interested in the Scottsboro case and the terrible injustice those in-
nocent boys have had to suffer the past two years. Practically, every-
one believes they are innocent. What a stain of the state of Alabama
and the whole South! I can scarcely conceive of a jury of humans, pro-
nouncing a verdict of "Guilty" after the evidence presented at the trial
in Decatur. And they probably call themselves "Christians" and permit
their race prejudice to justify their action!
I have been closely following reports of the trial in Cincinnati papers
and just noticed in this morning's Enquirer, that the trial of the second
boy begins to-day, unless the Defense is successful in its attempt to
seek a change of venue. It stands to reason that the second trial will
prove no more fair than the first, in such a lynch atmosphere.
My grandmother was a "Lee" and a cousin of Robert E., whom the South re-
veres. Many times I have heard my father boast of this relationship.
As for myself, I am ashamed to have had any connection with the South.
I abhor injustice and oppression of any kind and always have as long as
I can recall. I have attended school with and met many fine members of
the negro race. Education and culture do wonderful things for any race
regardless of color. I can truthfully say that I know of only one per-
son who is not sympathetic toward the Scottsboro boys. He is a man of
only average intelligence, comes from the South and boasts that the "Ni-
gra" boot-blacks always recognize him as a "Southerner" and call him
"Boss-man" which probably satisfies his silly vanity tremendously. But
let him Beware when the Revolution comes! And I feel it is not far a-
way. It is a terrible thing to crush a race as the South has done. I
pity the Aristocracy of the South when the storm breaks loose. When an
oppressed race reaches the limit of endurance and begins to think, noth-
ing can hold it back. This is just a gentle hint to Southern Aristocra-
cy. We in the North hear the rumblings.
I am back in Cincinnati, visiting, after having spent five years in Texas
and fifteen years elsewhere. I hope I shall never have to live in the
South again until the negroes are free in every sense of the word.
I appeal to you to send this letter to Judge Horton and the Prosecuting
Attorney. They should know the opinion of northerners and I an sure I
am expressing the belief of many thousands of men and women, who cry for
justice for these innocent boys. How cruel to keep them in a peniten-
tiary for two whole years! I wish I could feel that they will be freed
(and carefully protected from lynchers if they are set free) before the
summer months are here again. They have suffered too long already.
Passion should not blind the eyes of Justice!
Very sincerely,
Pearl Aline Blanchard
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Pearl Aline Blancha in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Governor Miller in Alabama.
Creator
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Blancha, Pearl Aline
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
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Pearl Aline Blancha, a distant relative of Robert E. Lee, is ashamed to have any relationship to the South at all, as she abhors "injustice and oppression of any kind." She writes that education and culture do great things for any race, and that the North feels the rumblings of a revolution from African Americans in the South who have endured too much. She continues that she hopes to never live in the South again until African Americans are free.
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1933-04-17
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United States--Ohio--Cincinnati
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Q
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Q0000063085; Q0000063086; Q0000063087
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1731 S Street NW, Washington, D.C.
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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WASHINGTON
6PM
DC 1933
Honourable B. M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
L. W. G.
RECEIVED
MAR 24 MONTGOMERY,
(SPEC. DEL.)
ALA.
1731 S Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.,
21st. Match, 1933.
The Honourable B. M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Executive Building,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Excellency:
I most humbly beg you in the name of the
most high, our Lord and Jesus Christ, to give this letter your
most kind consideration in behalf of the Colored Scottsbury boys,
whose fate hang in the balance of divine justice.
I do not know them, but as one of the human
family and of the Christian Army, I have tried in my small way to
try and comfort them, since I have learned of their most sorrowful
fate, and beg of you in the same name of the Lord to consider their fate.
It is in the spirit of christian love that I humbly address you and
would feel the same and pray the same for any human being whose
guilt was questioned by so large a majority of citizens and even
international forces.
I have fasted and prayed that the Eternal
and almighty father would touch your heart to grant this petition
in his holy name, to release those poor boys back to their poor
lonely mothers, who probably know no joy in this life other than
being mothers. I have fasted three days and nights, not food nor
water, praying night and day, trusting in God's good mercy, that
you will favor our request. And I believe you will do the will
of God, and bring down blessings upon yourself and your whole
State as well, and all that is dear to you. Your future home in
glory will be justice. Oh God grant, and all that has anything
to do with this case, from the greatest to the smallest, will be
happy that they will not have innocent blood upon them.
Just your word and the word of your pen
Excellency, will merit justice to your State and freedom will
be the jewels in your heavenly robe.
Sincerely in Christ,
Lillian W. McGroeken
Scottsboro
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SB_L_1933.03.21_0766
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 20, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Title
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Letter from Lillian W. Crocker, to The Honourable B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Crocker, Lillian W.
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Christianity
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In this religious letter, Lillian W. Crocker asks that the Governor give this case his consideration and attention. She writes that as "one of the human family and the Christian Army" she has fasted and prayed for the Scottsboro Boys' comfort. She hopes that her petition will touch his heart.
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1933-03-21
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English
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Q
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Q0000063046
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Denver, CO
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Margaret Sasser
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International Labor Defense
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Not guilty; release
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Transcription
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INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE.
DENVER COLORADO.
January 19. 1932.
Governor B,M. Miller.
Montgomery Alabama.
I am a Working Woman, Who understands the class struggle, and
knowns the reasons for the cry of rape being raised against the
Negro workers. Understanding as I do, that this is a maens used
by the rulring class of the South, to keep the Colored and White
devided, to keep them from organizing together, to fight for their
rights as workers, and realizing that as members of the working class
our interests are the same. I see in these nine Colored boys, namely
Willie Robertson, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Clarence Novis,
Ozie Powell, Ted Weems, Eugene Williams, Roy Patterson and Roy Wright.
my class Brothers. and firmly believing them to innocent of the
crime, with which they are charged. I raise my voice along with the
millions of workers in this Country who are demanding the immediate
and safe realse of these nine Boys.
Dorothy Eil.
R.S. Box 93m.
Stock Yards Station,
Denver Colo.
(notes: maens -- means, rulring -- ruling, devided -- divided, realse-- release)
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004235, Folder 19, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Dorothy Eil. in Denver, Colorado, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Eil., Dorothy
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; International Labor Defense
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This sender—"a working woman"—recognizes that the Southern ruling class uses racism and rape accusations to divide the white and black working class so that they do not unite and fight for workers rights together. The author declares that the Scottsboro Boys, whom she believes to be innocent, are her class brothers.
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1932-01-19
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United States--Colorado--Denver
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English
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Q
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Q0000063134; Q0000063135; Q0000063136
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250 Steuben St., Brooklyn, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; state execution
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250 Steuben St.
Brooklyn
N.Y.
Your Excellency :
As a law abiding
citizen, I am appealing to you to
let the law take its' course in
the case of the Scottsboro negros.
The average woman is no
match for a male bent on attack,
and if she cannot depend on the
law for justice, then what is
to become of her?
On every side we hear much
talk about stamping out crime;
but crime never will be stamped
out until criminals are made to
pay the penalty for crime.
Just one year ago, the blood
of every white person worthy of
the name, was at boiling point,
because a white woman in
Hawaii could not get justice
for an attack made on her by
five half-cast Asiatics; therefore,
in my humble opinion, it is
inconsistent, to say the least, to
tolerate a similar offense from
negros.
The writer of this letter is a
New-York-born white woman
without claim to Southern blood,
and who has never been fortunate
enough to have visited the
South.
So it stands to reason that
most of my friends and acquaint-
ances are New Yorkers. And I
have not heard one person
speak a word that clashes
with my opinion on this matter.
Thanking you for your kind
attention, I beg to remain
Yours Very Sincerely
Charlotte Fox.
April 11, 1933.
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SB_L_1933.04.11_0870
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 13, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Charlotte Fox in Brooklyn, New York, to Your Excellency.
Creator
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Fox, Charlotte
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
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Charlotte Fox asks Governor Miller to let the law run its course. She writes that women are no match for men in a physical altercation and they they need the law to defend them. She wants the Scottsboro Boys to pay the penalty, and insists that her other Northern friends agree.
Date
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1933-04-11
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United States--New York--Brooklyn
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English
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Q0000063035
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Jacksonville, FL
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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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Scottsboro
South Jax, Fla.
Dear Governor:
I know God. I have tried Him out and I find Him to be
real. I believe every word of His. I even believe that about His
taking note of every strand of hair in our heads and His noting the
fall of the sparrow. I certainly believe what he says about our
reaping what we sow. Above all things I believe he hears the
prayers of the humble.
Unless you are dead sure about the guilt of every one of those boys,
I beg in His name and in the eternal well being of your self and
those who come after you not to persecute those youths though they
are not of our people. Now you know and God knows. Don't kick
against the prick. Do not tempt the patience of God. Earnest
prayers are going up every day and God's ears are open.
I am white and southern just like you are but somehow last night I
was urged by something within to get this over to you. This in spite
of the fact that I know very little of this case. I dreamed first
that I saw in the prison the electric chair and a thrill of horror
shook me. The some one in my dream told me this was the torture of
those black boys day and night. "Tell the governor that God is not
mocked; what soever a man soweth that shall He also reap" that "even
he is in God's hands that he has many ways of sending retribution".
With my awaking came an over powering urge. Examine your conscience.
Remember that you can not go up against His power. I beg that you do
not harden your neck. The penalty will surely come. I tell you they
are praying. I was told this in the same dream. I assure you that I
do not believe in dreams but there was something so overwhelmingly
real and different about this. Please, are you sure that justice has
been given? Are you sure that you have treated them as you would
expect your own children to be treated? As you would stand for a
groupe of our own lads to be treated? THINK'
yours in His name,
Norma H. Hargrave.
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SB_L_1931.07.15_0464
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004235, Folder 6, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Norma H. Hargrave in Jacksonville, Florida, to Governor.
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Hargrave, Norma H.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Christianity
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Inspired by a religious dream, Norma H. Hargrave begs Governor Miller in God's name not to persecute the Scottsboro Boys unless he is absolutely positive of their guilt. She describes her dream, and asks him to examine his conscience to make sure that justice has been given.
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1931-07-15
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United States--Florida--Jacksonville
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Q
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Q0000063127; Q0000063128
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1959 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; move trial to Birmingham
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F. Hatcher Atlanta, GA
1959 North Decatur Road A[PR] 18 530 AM 1933
Atlanta, Ga 2 STA. B.
Governor B. M. Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
1959 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, Ga.
April 17, 1933
Governor B.M. Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
My dear Governor Miller:
I have read with a great deal of interest the accounts of
the Scottsboro trial in Decatur. I am an Alabamian and greatly desire
that Alabama demand justice of every person brought before her courts.
I regret deeply the miscarriage of justice that has recently ocurred in
Decatur.
I want to urge you in the name of justice to move the succeeding
trials to Birmingham or to some city in which a fairer trial can take place.
It seems a shame to those of us who are citizens desiring
harmonious and appreciative race relations in the south that such events
as these happen and thus condemn us before the rest of the nation and the
world. It certainly seems that <u>Alabama</u> ought always to insist on justice
so that there would be no reason for the interference of outside groups!
The fact that this case has been and probably will be again taken to the
Supreme Court is within itself an indictment against the people of Alabama.
Judge Horton is to be highly commended for his efforts to
insure safety and fairness during the trials. Likewise your action in
furnishing the National Guard is to be appreciated. A further effort
toward justice would be to move the remaining trials to another place.
I assure you that I have every confidence that you will gladly
comply with every attempt to secure justice, and furthermore that the
citizens will support you in your actions.
Respectfully yours,
Flora Y. Hatcher
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Flora Y. Hatcher in Atlanta, Georgia, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Hatcher, Flora Y.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Horton, James Edwin, 1878-1973
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Flora Y. Hatcher, an Alabamian, writes that she is disappointed in the miscarriage of justice in Alabama and urges the governor to move the succeeding trials to Birmingham. She worries that the state has been condemned before the nation and praises Judge Horton's fairness and Governor Miller's usage of the National Guard.
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1933-04-17
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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Q
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Q0000063079; Q0000063080; Q0000063081; Q0000063082
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809 South Division Street, Ann Arbor, MI
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; move trial to Birmingham
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<u>Special</u> ANN ARBOR
MAR 23
6 PM
MICH 1933
ANN ARBOR
MAR 24
6 PM
MICH 1933
From Agnes Inglis
809 South Division Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Governor B.M. Miller
Montgomery,
Alabama.
RECEIVED
MAR 26 A.M.
MONTGOMERY,
(SPEC. DEL.)
CIN & NASH
TR. 1
MAR
25
1933
Ann Arbor, March 25-1933
809 South Division Street.
Governor B.M. Miller.
Montgomery, Alabama.
Dear Sir: -
If I could in words express to you my deep feeling and strong sense of the injustice
of having the re-trial of the Scottsboro boys take place in another small, provincial,
an prejudiced center I should do so.
Men in political positions hold in their hands the life and death of others. It is
so in this case. In your hands lies the fate of these boys. But all the people all ovr
over the world who stand by them hold, too, in their hands their fate! It is a word;
a written word ,- as this from me to you that matters. I think much of this case .
It is to speak, then, -to take this little time, this very little time , to write this
to you ,- to let you know that I am thinking of them , and to express to you the
feeling I share with the many . It is a deep conviction that we share.
I demand for these boys an unconditional fair trial,- such an one as, when over,
will leave no traces of bitterness in regard to those in whose hands it rests.
I demand that you grant a change of venue and that you, in all fair play, have the
trial take place in the city of Birmingham , as thousands are insisting shall be the
case.
So few have the gift of speech! So few the gift of the written word ! Believe me when
I say that to pen even these few lines means much deep feeling and much concerN. It is
an effort to write to unknown people , as you are unknown to me. I say this to tell
you that you may well believe that for every letter that you receive there are
thousands ,- no one knows how many thousands,-indeed, I believe that there are
hundreds of thousands who uphold the boys in their right to a fair and unprejudiced
trial in this re-trial.
I do not know you . I know nothing of your outlook upon life, of your training in
thought, of your values. But I know you value your life, as I value mine. And in such
case I would hope for response from another for my life. I ask, then, that this
response be given in the case of the lives of these boys.
Sincerely, Agnes Inglis
Ann Arbor, March 23, 1933
-Copy- 809 South Division Street.
Thomas E. Knight Jr.
Attorney-General.
Montgomery,
Alabama.
Dear Sir:-
In behalf of the boys concerned in what is known as the Scottsboro Case I address
you. This I do, adding my word to that of thousands of others who are interested
in this world-renouned case . I ask for a change of venue for the setting of the
re-trial , so that it may be held in Birmingham in an atmosphere not charged with
prejudice , I do assure you that this step is of utmost importance . Small
centers , with local prejudices are not the place to insure fair play and justice
as all know who have had experience in such cases..I am sure you must realize this .
I am inclosing for your perusal the letter -a copy of it, at least,- which I am sending
the Governor of Alabama . It is, in its contents, such a letter as I would write to you.
I am therefore sending this copy to you . I believe that the matter of this change of
venue rests with you both and I urge that you agree in this matter , - so that the
case will be tried in Birmingham, Alabama.
Sincerely,
Agnes Inglis
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Agnes Inglis in Ann Arbor, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Inglis, Agnes
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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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Agnes Inglis asks that Governor Miller move the Scottsboro Boys' trial to Birmingham so that they may be given a fair trial. She includes a copy for Alabama Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, Jr.
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1933-03-23
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United States--Michigan--Ann Arbor
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Q
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Q0000063137; Q0000063138; Q0000063139
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410 Gaines St., Elmira, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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Elmira
APR
8 PM
1933
N. Y.
Gov. B. M. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama.
April 12, 1933.
Gov. B. M. Miller 410 James st.,
Montgomery, Alabama. Elmira, N.Y.
Dear Governor Miller :
I am writing to
assist, if I can, in sparing the
lives of the Scottsboro colored boys.
I believe the boys are
innocent, and as a student of
criminology, it seems to me
much better to devote some of
the money, that state institutions
of punishment require, to education
in the schools - along the line of
social intelligence. And until this
has had sufficient time to prove
its' worth, all states show consider-
ation with criminals that <u>are</u>
criminals because of ignorance.
And, at the same time, those states
also hesitate to deal out a death
sentence, where there is not
certainty of guilt.
My interest is real
in this case and I trust it
may turn out for the best.
Very respectfully yours,
Eloise H. Laurence.
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SB_L_1933.04.12_0869
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 13, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Eloise H. Lawrence in Elmira, New York, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Lawrence, Eloise H.
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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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Eloise Lawrence, a student of criminology, writes to the Governor that she hopes some of the funding for institutions of punishment could be better used for education in matters of "social intelligence." She hopes that in the future the state will not be so fast to treat people criminally or to give the death sentence.
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1933-04-12
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United States--New York--Elmira
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English
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