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Title
Resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174 in Staten Island, New York, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174 (Staten Island, N.Y.); Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912
Description
The Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174—a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party—reacts to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur. The resolution asks that Governor Miller immediately release the boys, enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, protect the boys and their attorneys from "Ku Klux Klan lynch mobs," and change the venue for remaining trials to Mobile, Alabama.
Creator
Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174 (Staten Island, N.Y.)
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 19, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1933-04-23
Format
Resolution
Language
English
Coverage
United States--New York--Staten Island