Letter from University of Chicago Student League, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.

Letter from University of Chicago Student League, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.

Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912; National Student League (U. S.), University of Chicago Chapter

Members of the University of Chicago Student League unite in protest against the verdict of Haywood Patterson's second trial and ask Governor Miller to exercise his power to free the Scottsboro Boys.

University of Chicago Student League (Chicago, Il.)

Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 15, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History

1933-04-15

Letter

English

United States--Illinois--Chicago

Chicago. ILL.
APR 15 230 PM 1933
Hyde Park St

His Excellency, Governor Miller
Executive Mansion,
Montgomery, Alabama.

The University of Chicago


Governor Miller
Executive Mansion
Montgomery, Alabama.

Your Excellency:
The members of the National Student
League and its guests, assembled in
Mandel Hall on the University of Chicago
campus, unite in protest against the
verdict of guilty entered against Heywood
Patterson in Decatur, Alabama.

It is for you, Governor Miller, to
act to exercise your executive power to
free the nine innocent Scottsboro boys.

University of Chicago Student League