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Title
Letter from Forderick Kassen in Glenwood, Iowa, to Your Excellency.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
Forderick Kassen assures Governor Miller that people in Iowa, and people outside of the Southeast in general, want to see the Scottsboro Boys hanged, though the United States Supreme Court has ordered a retrial. He hopes that Alabama will continue its "ethical fight for the purity of the white race, segregation, and white race supremacy." He does not respect a court that upholds "hate legislation" like the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Creator
Kassen, Forderick
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1932-11-14
Format
Letter
Language
English
Coverage
United States--Iowa--Glenwood
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Transcription
Glenwood Ia
Nov, 14 1932
Gov. of Alabama
Scottsboro
Your Excellency;
I wish to reassure you, many
people of Iowa favor the hanging of the
seven negros recently unfairly favored with
an order of retrial by the iniquitous Supreme Court.
Many here hope the State of Alabama will
continue its ethical fight for the purity of the
white race, segregation, and white race supremacy
so nobly and honorably maintained.
One cannot expect much from a court so
shallow that it declared and still maintains such
forced post war late legislation as the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments constitutional, in spite of
open Congressional coercion of other days.
Yours respectfully
Frederick Kassen
Nov, 14 1932
Gov. of Alabama
Scottsboro
Your Excellency;
I wish to reassure you, many
people of Iowa favor the hanging of the
seven negros recently unfairly favored with
an order of retrial by the iniquitous Supreme Court.
Many here hope the State of Alabama will
continue its ethical fight for the purity of the
white race, segregation, and white race supremacy
so nobly and honorably maintained.
One cannot expect much from a court so
shallow that it declared and still maintains such
forced post war late legislation as the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments constitutional, in spite of
open Congressional coercion of other days.
Yours respectfully
Frederick Kassen