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Q
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Q0000063043
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2245 Bellfield Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
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Margaret Sasser
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N.A.A.C.P., Cleveland Branch (Cleveland, Oh.)
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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2245 Bellfield Road.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio,
January 30, 1932.
Scottsboro
Governor B.M.Miller,
State House,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Dear Sir:
In recent months I have collected a voluminous
file of material on the Scottsboro affair. My file
includes letters from several unusually well-informed
students of the case. These individuals embrace both
radicals and conservatives.
Nowhere can I discover a line which would lead
to the belief that any of the defendants are guilty of
any worse crime than being poor, friendless and black.
In my own mind I am convinced that the boys are
innocent. I am convinced that if they are executed, they
will die as martyrs to a benighted, stupid and unreasoning
prejudice, and nothing else.
The Scottsboro affair is now an international
incident. It is destined to be a subject for future
historians and will serve as an example of the status
of civilization in the United States of America in the
year 1932.
An American journalist of my acquaintance,
residing in Paris, said recently:
"I hesitate to think what will happen to
many Americans if the boys are executed, Europe is
thoroughly aroused."
Alabama cannot afford to be held up before
the world as a commonwealth which denies the element of
justice to the humblest of its citizens and prefers whole
sale murder to an honest searching after facts. It can-
not afford to murder Negroes in cold blood, merely be-
cause they are black. The civilized world will not be
willing to sit by and applause while a legal
lynching takes place in Kilby prison.
It may ultimately devolve upon you, as chief
executive of the state, to make a thorough investiga-
tion, unhampered by antiquated legal red tape. I
trust you will not be found wanting. Otherwise your
state will take its place as spiritually akin to Turkey
under the sultans and Russia under the czarz.
Respectfully,
David H. Pierce
President, Cleveland Branch.
N. A. A. C. P.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004235, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from David H. Pierce in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Pierce, David H., President, Cleveland Branch, N.A.A.C.P. (Cleveland, Oh.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Branch (Cleveland, Oh.)
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David H. Pierce, president of the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP, writes that he has collected a large file on the Scottsboro case, and given all the information, does not believe the boys to be guilty. He insists that if the Scottsboro Boys are legally murdered, they will become martyrs, whom future historians will study. He also mentions to Governor Miller that the state of Alabama cannot afford to be an international mockery, as the "civilized world" will not sit by.
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1932-01-30
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United States--Ohio--Cleveland Heights
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Q0000063015; Q0000063016
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Address unknown
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Franky Abbott
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International Labor Defense
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Not guilty; release
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For the Governor
of Alabama
Sir:
I have sent this letter in this manner so as to make sure you will
receive it.
First of all there is no justice in you and the millions like you
in this State of Alabama and other parts of the despised empire of
the South except what colored and w ite Americans will take.
There is to be a first class legal lynching of nine innocent colored
boys who have been accused of having committed rape upon two white
girls. Of course the facts in the case do not justify the accusa
tion, but the "rape" racket is always used by you and the rest of
your "Ku Kluxers" in a supreme effort to divide the white ad colored
people, to prevent them from uniting ad living side by side in peace
and harmony, and to keep the colored American in his place. For
after all there is no difference in men and women because of color.
A man is a man regardless of color, and all men should maintain
their manhood rights regardless of color.
The White people of the State of Alabama are for the most part the
inferior the most ignorant, the most coward like whites to be found
in any part of the South. It takes 10,000 whites to lynch one
colored man. You and your people are a disgrace and a nusiance, and
the time will come when the when the colored people whom you persecute, will
and ought to drive you out. You ought to have been driven out
of Alabama long ago, but the colored people have lacked the proper
leadership to accomplish that end.
They, the colored people have toiled and made possible the ease
with which you live, they, the colored people have made possible
by work in the fields and on the chain gang the luxury you bathe
yourselves in, and the time for an end of all this condition
of feudalism has come. This State and all the land belongs to the
colored people, and the colored people being in the majority in
the South should be the ruler of the South.
You have the facts in the case of which is the following synopsis:
The one girl, Victoria Prince is the prostitute
with a jail record, and the other girl Rubye
Bates, is also a prostitute. The one girl offers
unsupported testimony, the other girl cannot i
dentify any othe boys accused, and the white
men who rose on the train do not accuse the nine
colored boys as thise who threw them off.
The facts you are well aware of, but you as the governor, who should
be a just governor, will be silent while the legal lynching pro
ceeds, and in your silence you approve of more lynchings in an
effort to maintain such nonsense as the "Integrity" of white women
and "White supremacy" but I am tell you right now and here that
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your time is coming. THANKS TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY, The INTERNATIONAL
LABOR DEFENSE, the UNDERTAKER and the CEMETERY.
If those nine colored boys are lynched, and of course, the whole
world, understanding that "Legal trial" is only a mantle they,
the lynchers wear in court, if those boys are lynched their will
be millions the world over who will rise up and avenge this
act of threachery and murder and will sure avenge the murder of
these boys accordingly.
I am a member of the INternational Labor Defense, but if I live
for one hundred years rest assured I will do my bit in teaching
the colored people of the South to throw off the yoke of White
oppression.
As a governor you ought to be tarred and feathered.
Respectfully for the Good of
nine colored boys.
David Green
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 8, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Donald Green to the Governor of Alabama.
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Green, Donald
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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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Condemning the Governor and the culture and history of the South, Donald Green argues that the facts in the Scottsboro case do not indicate any guilt on behalf of the Scottsboro Boys.
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1931-04-30
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English
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Q
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Q0000063046
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Denver, CO
Mediator
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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.
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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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Q0000063005
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Branchville, MD
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Franky Abbott
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N/A; letter warns of Communist interference
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Branchville, Md.
April 16, 1931
Hon. B. M. Miller, Governor,
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Sir:
According to an Associated Press dispatch
of yesterday, dated at Birmingham, the International Labor
Defense has issued a statement through two of its repre-
sentatives, Allan Taub of New York, an attorney for the
organization, and Douglas McKenzie, a district representa-
tive, charging that the conviction of 8 colored youths at
Scottsboro last week for attacking two white girls and
subsequent death sentences on the defendants was a "frame-
up from start to finish".
My purpose in writing you is to inform you, if
you are not already so informed, that the International Labor
Defense is a Communist organization whose purpose is to
discredit the courts and institutions of the United States
and incidentally to enrich themselves through contributions
which they are able to secure for defense purposes. They
are not interested in the guilt or innocence of these negroes,
but they are vitally interested in making the negro population
believe that the negro because he is negro cannot get
justice in the courts. This organization has been carrying
on this sort of propaganda for years. See Report of the
special committee of the House of Representatives pursuant
to H. Res. 20 on Communist propaganda; dated January 17, 1931.
Respectfully yours,
Edward S. King
Edward S. King
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SB_L_1931.04.16_0019
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 2, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Edward S. King in Branchville, Maryland, to Hon. B. M. Miller, in Montgomery, Alabama.
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King, Edward S.
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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; Communism
Description
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Edward S. King writes to inform Governor Miller that International Labor Defense lawyers, Allan Taub and Douglas McKenzie, had Communist affiliations.
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1931-04-16
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United States--Maryland--Branchville
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Q
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Q0000063137; Q0000063138; Q0000063139
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410 Gaines St., Elmira, NY
Mediator
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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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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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Q
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Q0000063247; Q0000063248
Address
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439 Knickerbocker Ave., Paterson, NJ
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Margaret Sasser
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Uncertain
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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
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SB_L_1933.06.05_0987
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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 Ernest R. Betz in Paterson, New Jersey, to Governor, State of Alabama.
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Betz, Ernest R.
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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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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.
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1933-06-05
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United States--New Jersey--Patterson
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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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English
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Southern States
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Q0000063076
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Glenwood, IA
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; lynch
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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
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SB_L_1932.11.14_0735
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Forderick Kassen in Glenwood, Iowa, to Your Excellency.
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Kassen, Forderick
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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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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.
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1932-11-14
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United States--Iowa--Glenwood
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English
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Q
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Q0000063023
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New York, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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N/A; letter warns of Communist interference
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Scottsboro
New York, N.Y.
May 9th, 1931.
To His EXCELLENCY,
GOV. B.M.Miller
Montgomery, Alabama.
Dear Sir:-
Enclosed: you will pleas find; a newspaper
article, which was out from the "Daily Worker" a very
sordid and militant newspaper; the central official
organ of the "Communists", that demented race, of
undesirable aliens, better known as the (Reds); who
are causing us so much trouble lately.
Those maniac (Reds), have been running all
over N.Y.City., asking everybody to put their names
on that telegram of protest, that was sent to you, asking
for a new trial for the eight negro boys convicted at
Scottsboro, the (Reds), are never sincere in what ever
they undertake to do; they do not care a rap what happ-
end to those boys, only it makes something to fight
about, and they would rather fight than eat.
And as for the those, who put their names on
that protest telegram, well you know Governor, some folks,
have their brains in the seat of their pantaloons.
It would be just too bad, is the Southern people,
could not manage their own States, with out being dictated
to by agents, from that (Babylon Despot) called "Soviet Russia"
And as for, that "horse-pond"--they like so
much to take, that is a good tip, for us to get our rifles
ready and take a train for Alabama, to help you hold that
pond: for you know Governor, that hatchet, is buried: it
is now "One for All and All for One".
Sincerely yours,
Frank A. Cluman
A native born New Yorker.
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SB_L_1931.05.09_0357
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 24, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Frank A. Clunan in New York, New York, to His Excellency in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Clunan, Frank A.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Communist Party of the United States
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Frank A. Clunan, "a native born New Yorker," writes of the "manic Reds" in New York City, who ask people to sign protest telegrams but only do so to stir up trouble. Clunan believes that the Southern states should not be led by Soviet Russia, and offers Northern help in creating a united front against them. The letter uses red type for the word "Reds," in reference to communists.
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1931-05-09
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United States--New York--New York
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English
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Q0000063019; Q0000063020
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1110 E. Reynolds St., Springfield, IL
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Margaret Sasser
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Uncertain; life imprisonment
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13 1931
MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Spec. Del
eturn {Frank H. Spaulding
5 {1110 E. Reynolds St.
Days {Springfield, Ill.
SPRINGFIELD
APRIL
9 PM
ILL. 1931 FEE CLAIMED OFF
Governor of Alabama OF FIRST ADDRESS
Executive Office
Montgomery,
Ala.
Important
Frank H. Spaulding
1110 E. Reynolds St.
Springfield, Ill.
April 11, 1931.
Governor of Alabama
Executive Office
Dear Sir;
In the behalf of good judgement, for your
State and the whole United States, I ask you
to consider the commutative of the sentences of
the eight Negroes, confered at Scottville the 9th.
While their trial and conviction, without
mob violence, is a great plume in the cap of
Alabama towards justice and modern progress,
the victory would be complete with a more jus-
tiful sentence.
I'm a Northern Negro, 24 yrs of age. Although never
having been over the line, I've always been able to
see and reason with the Southern point of view.
And to prove that all the above is'nt so much thrash,
because I'm in the security of Illinois, I volunteer, with
expenses paid, and the proper authority, even at the risk
violence towards myself, to come to Alabama and plead
their case for life-imprisonment, if possible.
yours truly,
Frank H. Spaulding
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 14, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Frank A. Spaulding in Springfield, Illinois, to Governor of Alabama, Executive Office in Montgomery, Ala.
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Spaulding, Frank A.
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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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Though he had never traveled South, a 24-year-old African American in Illinois explains to Governor Miller that he understands how to reason with the "Southern point of view." He offers to travel to Alabama to argue for the Scottsboro Boys' sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.
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1931-04-11
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United States--Illinois--Springfield
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English
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African Americans