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Title
Letter from Ernest R. Betz in Paterson, New Jersey, to Governor, State of Alabama.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
Ernest R. Betz, a senior in high school, writes that a student in his class with radical ideas swayed his classmates to believe that an African American cannot achieve justice in the South. He asks Governor Miller to refute this claim and to provide other pertinent information about the case.
Creator
Betz, Ernest R.
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1933-06-05
Format
Letter
Language
English
Coverage
United States--New Jersey--Patterson
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Transcription
PATERSON
JUN 6 1230 PM 1933
N.J.
Executive Offices
Montgomery
Alabama
June 5, 1933
Governor, State of Alabama,
Dear Sir:
I address my letter of inquiry to you knowing
that you will direct it to the proper quaters for
answering.
Recently in your state there was a good deal
of newspaper and judical hulaballoo about nine
negroes, charged with attaching a white girl.
In our English class (Senior English, East-
side High School) there is a person of extreme
radical ideas who has swayed most of the class
with his eloquent discussion of this subject.
During his talk, he claimed that it was imposs-
ible for a negro to obtain justice in the South.
So I write for information to refute this subject.
I would also be gratefull for any particulars con-
cerning the lawyers sent down to defend the negroes,
general conditions and treatment of the negroes,
and any points of the case which you may think
important.
Thanking you in advance,
Ernest R. Betz
Ernest R Betz
439 Knickerbocker Ave.,
Paterson
New Jersey
JUN 6 1230 PM 1933
N.J.
Executive Offices
Montgomery
Alabama
June 5, 1933
Governor, State of Alabama,
Dear Sir:
I address my letter of inquiry to you knowing
that you will direct it to the proper quaters for
answering.
Recently in your state there was a good deal
of newspaper and judical hulaballoo about nine
negroes, charged with attaching a white girl.
In our English class (Senior English, East-
side High School) there is a person of extreme
radical ideas who has swayed most of the class
with his eloquent discussion of this subject.
During his talk, he claimed that it was imposs-
ible for a negro to obtain justice in the South.
So I write for information to refute this subject.
I would also be gratefull for any particulars con-
cerning the lawyers sent down to defend the negroes,
general conditions and treatment of the negroes,
and any points of the case which you may think
important.
Thanking you in advance,
Ernest R. Betz
Ernest R Betz
439 Knickerbocker Ave.,
Paterson
New Jersey