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Q0000063021; Q0000063022
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Fackler, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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<u>Scottsboro</u>
Fackler, Ala. R.I.
May 5, 1931.
Governor B. M. Miller,
Montgomery, Ala.
Dear Governor Miller: -
In regard to the negroes that were
tried in special term of Jackson Co. Circuit Court
for rape.
I served on the jury before whom the five
were tried.
When the first verdict was returned I
was in Davis' store, some <u>little</u> distance (<u>not a great
distance</u>) from the court house. I hears some <u>little</u>
commotion on the street in front of the store. On
going out I asked "why the fuss"? The answer, "The
verdict has been returned. The electric chair".
What I am wanting to make <u>plain</u> to you,
Governor, is that hearing this had no influence what-
ever on mu decision. We, the jury acted <u>solely</u>
according to the evidence produced. And had
the girls been black as ebony and the boys as
white as an Easter lily I would have acted just
as I did, and I am <u>positive</u> the other eleven would
have voted the same.
I have been requested to sign an affidavit
Over.
stating that I heard the cheering.
Again I say, I did hear some "fuss" in the street.
But this had nothing whatever to do with my decision
We acted <u>only according to the laws of our state.</u>
And the evidence that was produced.
We have good law if they <u>are inforced,</u> But
what account are they if <u>not</u> inforced?
And I believe, and will continue to until evidence
proves different, that we have a Governor
who will use his utmost power to see the laws
inforced to the point, and see that everyone
gets justice.
Governor is this not justice?
If we do not protect our women from such
brutality as this, what is to become of them; of us
for permitting it?
If only you could have heard the evidence
as it came from the lips of the state's witnesses!
(<u>inforcement</u>)
Yours for better law ^ and order.
T. Gaines Elkins
(note: inforced - enforced)
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Letter from T. Gaines Elkins in Fackler, Alabama, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Elkins, T. Gaines
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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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T. Gaines Elkins, who had served on the jury, insists with the Governor that his decision was influenced in no way by outside forces, but was made based only on state laws and the evidence provided in the courtroom. He believes that the Scottsboro Boys have received justice.
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1931-05-05
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Smith College, Northampton, MA
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Margaret Sasser
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Department of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College
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Not guilty; move trial to Birmingham
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SMITH COLLEGE
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTES
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION AND BIBLICAL LITERATURE
NORTHAMPTON
MAR 24
2 30 PM
1933
MASS.
Governor Miller,
The Capitol,
Montgomery,
Alabama.
SMITH COLLEGE
NORTHAMPTON. MASSACHUSETTS
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION AND BIBLICAL LITERATURE
March 24th, 1933.
Governor Miller,
The Capitol of Alabama,
Birmingham, Alabama.
My dear Governor Miller:
When Chief Justice Anderson made his heroic
report in the Scottsboro case, a host of American citizens felt that
Alabama might be saved from a stigma which centuries cannot wipe out.
Unfortunately it looks now as though the spirit
of race prejudice and mob law will again flood into the court room and
a legal lynching take place. The reports of the statements made by
the prosecution make countless American men and women who have
sympathy for that heroic band of Southern white men and women who have
been struggling to establish justice in place of injustice in the
Southern courts, seriously afraid that the spirit in which this trial
is about to be conducted is not one in which calm judgment will be
present, but, rather, hot and cruel blind emotion.
Had the trial been held in Birmingham I feel
that there might have been hope. Decatur has a record already stained
with mob violence. Its population is composed of the rural element,
uneducated and obsessed with a prejudiced for which they are not to
blame for they drank it with their mother's milk. Having lived in
the South, counting many of your outstanding leaders both of the white
and Negro race, among my friends, I know of what I write. But, you, Sir,
and the men of your class, know these things too, and the real responsi-
bility lies not with the poor and ignorant farmer and cotten grower,
but with the educated and enlightened men and women who hold high
positions of authority. If there is mob violence and the mob spirit
in the court room at Decatur the guilt lies with men like yourself,
who, for fear or favor, suffer such things to be.
Already in the minds of countless of your
fellow citizens and a larger hosts in the great nations outside our
land the state of Alabama has suffered great and lasting shame. The
treatment of the boys during these long months of imprisonment has
caused those of us who know to blush for America. The Nazi treatment
of the Jew is less harsh and cruel than what is being endured in
many any American prison camp and on many a chain gang. To the men who
have the courage and the fairness to help right these great wrongs
may not come popular acclaim among their own community, but men and
women who love justice will acclaim them and the future will enshrine
their names as pioneers of the better day.
Respectfully yours,
S. Ralph Harlow
S. Ralph Harlow
Professor, Smith College
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from S. Ralph Harlow in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Governor Miller in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Harlow, S. Ralph
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Smith College; Anderson, John C.; Nazism
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S. Ralph Harlow writes to Governor Miller that he had hoped Chief Justice Anderson's report on the Scottsboro case might have changed the course of things, but is disappointed that their trial will still take place in Decatur, instead of Birmingham, where prejudice may take hold of the courtroom. He believes that men like Governor Miller, who are educated and hold positions of power, not the "poor and ignorant" workers, are ultimately responsible for decisions such as these. He adds that treatment in prison camps and on chain gangs is worse than Nazis' treatment of Jewish people.
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1933-03-24
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Q
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Q0000063132; Q0000063133
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Prince Bay, Staten Island, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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S.O. Rusby Staten Island Prince Bay APR 19 12 M 1933 S. I. N. Y. N. Y. Gov. B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Alabama. Prince Bay, S. I. N. Y. Apr. 18th, 1933 To His Excellency, Gov BM Miller, Montgomery Ala Dear Sir: You are receiving many letters concerning the convicted Negro and the eight still to be tried in the Scottsboro case, I realize that the Negro problem is one that is troubling both North and South and i am inclined to think when Icall to mind all the trouble that has been caused by bringing slavss to America, that it would have been better had we left them in Africa and have gone <span style="text-decoration: underline;">there</span> to elevate them. But we <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> did the deed, and we all must work together to solve the problem of helping to make good citizens of these people, whom we stole fromtheir homes I am asking in nine White boys had attacked two Colored girls would there have been the same efforts made to secure conviction and pun- ishment. Of course there should have been. North We at the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">tNotrth</span> are not guiltless in the matter of prejudice, and worse matters seem to be getting^rather than better. But all who desire fair play should be interested in seeing that that justice is d one to both Black and White. Excuse my taking your valuable time, but I do ask that so far as you have power in this matter, you will se that no injustice is done the boys. Respectfully yours, S. O. Rusby
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from S. O. Rusby in Staten Island, New York, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rusby, S. O.
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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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S. O. Rusby writes that it may have been better if "we had left them in Africa and have gone there to elevate them." He adds that it is everyone's responsibility "to make good citizens of these people." He also writes that the North is not guiltless of race issues and that justice should be done for white and black. He asks no injustice be done to the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-04-18
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Q0000063259
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Hartford, CT
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Margaret Sasser
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State Board of Education, State of Connecticut, Division of Field Service
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Not guilty; release
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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
DIVISION OF FIELD SERVICE
MAUD KEATOR Hartford, Connecticut
Special Education and Standards
July 25, 1933
Governor B. M. Miller,
State Capitol,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Your Excellency:
I wish to add my plea to the countless others you have
doubtless received asking for the release of the Scottsboro negro
boys.
As a native of Alabama, having been born in Decatur near
the scene of the trial, I am sincerely interested in this case,
and I earnestly hope that the people of the state will not allow
such gross injustice as the electrocution of these innocent boys.
Such procedure must surely elicit the disapproval and scorn of
the entire nation, or at least those enlightened states which are
not so benighted by bigoted racial prejudice.
I have always deplored the motto of my native state "Here
We Rest" in comparing it with the motto of the state of my Alma
Mater (the University of Wisconsin) whose watchword is "FORWARD".
Alabama will not only "Rest" but will definitely go backward if
she tolerates the murder of these negro boys who, because of their
color, are unjustly discriminated against.
Having been a State Child Labor Inspector in the Alabama
Child Welfare Department, I know the benighted attitude prevalent
among the majority of white employers with regard to negro child
labor, and I am acquainted with some of the grace injustices that
had to be tolerated simply because public opinion in the state
was not educated to the fact that child labor laws were enacted
for the protection of the black as well as the white child.
It is quite obvious that if these nine Scottsboro boys
were white they would have been released long ago. The Civil War
is over and most of our grandparents who fostered this racial
intolerance among us of the South are dead and silenced. The
marked decrease in lynchings in the South over the past few years
shows that we have made progress in changing our attitudes.
Why not change the motto of our state from "HERE WE REST" to
"LET'S GO"!
Yours sincerely,
Ruth Pointer
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Letter from Ruth Pointer in Hartford, Connecticut, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Pointer, Ruth
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Connecticut, State Board of Education, Division of Field Service; Alabama, Child Welfare Department
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Ruth Pointer, a woman born in Alabama, writes that she dislikes Alabama's motto, "Here We Rest," and that Alabama will not only "rest" but go backward if it allows the execution of the Scottsboro Boys. She offers that Alabama should change its motto to "Let's Go!"
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1933-07-25
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Northampton, MA
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Margaret Sasser
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass.
May [1] 2pm
19[33]
Gov. Benjamin Meek Miller,
Office of Governor-
Montgomery,
Alabama.
U.S. Veterans' Administrative Hosp.
Northampton, Mass.
May 1-'33-
My dear Mr. Miller-
Should old acquaintan-
ces be forgot? Its been a
long time since we knew
each other at the University.
Through the years I had
occasional news of you from
your brother than whom I
had no better friend.
Even so I would know
you now as Governor of our
State. I regret I have had
no opportunity to congratu-
late you. Though late my
wishes are none the less
sincere.
We have in common a
love for our State and an
ever readiness to serve her.
It is in the interest of my
State that I am writing.
During my sojourn in the
State of Massachusetts I have
been cordially and kindly
treated, but any criticism
of my State I cannot let
pass.
There has been much agi-
tation here regarding the
Scottsboro case which has been
so widely discussed.
I am enclosing a clipping
which is a report of a pub-
lic meeting which I attend
ed.
I was so indignant and
hurt that I could hardly
hold my tongue. But I did, and de-
termined to write to you.
It is a true report, except all isn't
told.
This man Harlow, professor of Theology
at Smith College ran for Congress last
fall on the Socialist ticket. Its possi-
ble that he is using this case as propa-
ganda. Anyway he presided, and
gave a most revolting story of the
Scottsboro case, and the first trial.
He told things that I do not believe.
The he introduced this negro, Davis,
and it is about his talk that I am
chiefly concerned. He said the South
was the land of oppression, and illus
trated. The clipping gives most of that.
But he kept repeating that a negro
in the South couldn't do this or that
or he would be lynched. His favorite
expression was "they lynch them
down there".
Then in a liquid, insinuating voice
he said "down there they burn them
at the stake". He went on to give a
vivid account of the negro tied to it
stake, soaked in gasoline, and slowly
burned, his cries being heard for
miles around.
I feel this should be taken up and
corrected. This negro Davis should
not be allowed to promulgate a false
story that is defaming to
our State.
In all my long life in Alaba
ma I never heard of a negro
being burned at the stake,
and if so atrocious a thing
had happened I undoubtedly
would have heard it.
This negro, no doubt finan
ced by the Socialist party,
is going from city to city
telling this story.
Wouldn't you like to have
your secretary write to Prof.
Harlow and tell him that
you expect him as a Christ
ian minister to stop this
negro from voicing such
an outrageous statement.
Of course I do not under-
stand why this case is not
dropped, there seems no foun-
dation for it, or justice in it.
But you no doubt have
your reasons, and I believe
in our Alabama men.
You have my sympathy in
the critical financial difficult
ies in Alabama, especially
the crisis that threatens the
schools. When we have made
such heroic efforts to bring
up educational standards,
and have been rewarded
with signal success, it
is most distressing to
have to curtail this work.
It is splendid the noble
sacrifice teachers have made,
and continued to teach
without salary.
I hope better times are not far off,
and you will reap the reward for
your earnest efforts.
With all good wishes I am
Sincerely yours,
Rose Garland Rives.
P.S.
May I suggest that you ask Raymond
Daniel of Temple Graves to write to
Prof Ralph Harlow of Smith College if
you do not care to have it come from
your office.
May 11, 1933
Miss Rose Garland Rives,
U.S. Veterans' Administrative Hospital
Northampton Mass.
Dear Miss Rives:
Your letter received and appreciated.
I understand you position and how
such misrepresentations distress you. There is
no way for us to correct mis-statements. Truth
and sober judgment will finally overcome it.
With best wishes I am
Yours sincerely,
B. M. Miller,
Governor
BMM:M
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 2, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Rose Garland Rivers in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Mr. Miller.
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Rivers, Rose Garland
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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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Rose Garland Rivers, a university acquaintance of Governor Miller, encloses and explains a clipping that reports of African Americans being lynched or burned "down there." She asks Governor Miller to take this up and correct this false impression of the state. Governor Miller responds that he has no way to correct misstatements, but that they will be overcome.
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1933-05-01
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Q
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Q0000063051
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
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Margaret Sasser
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Tuskegee Institute
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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA
ROBERT R. MOTON
April 14, 1931.
Dear Governor:
I am writing to thank you for the promptness
and effectiveness of your action looking toward
the prevention of a horrible tragedy at Scottsboro
which, I am sure, had it transpired, would have
shocked the moral sense of the whole country, and
placed a stigma on out great state, wholly unde-
served for law and order which has been maintained
now for many years by her citizens.
The prompt and orderly process of punishing
crime meets with the hearty approval of all wor-
thy citizens in both races; but the end of the
law is justice and I am confident that in this
case you will see that such protection as the
courts can give will be meted out to the humblest,
the poorest - yes, and the blackest member of our
commonwealth.
Very sincerely yours,
R.R. Moton
c/
Hon. B.M. Miller
Governor of Alabama
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004236, Folder 1, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Robert R. Moton in Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, to Hon. B. M. Miller, in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Moton, Robert R.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Tuskegee Institute
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Tuskegee Institute president Robert R. Moton writes to the Governor of Alabama on the school's letterhead, applauding the orderly punishment of crime, but stating that he hopes the courts will be equally just with African Americans as with whites.
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1931-04-14
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United States--Alabama--Tuskegee
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Q0000063012
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1236 Washington Street, Lincoln, NE
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Margaret Sasser
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State of Nebraska Senate Chamber
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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"Put God First In All Things"
[Man with hammer
with countryside
and hills behind] Scottsboro
To The Honorable State of Nebraska
B.M.Miller Governor SENATE CHAMBER
of Ala. FORTY-SIXTH SESSION
Lincoln 4/24/31.
To the Governor of the great state of Alabama, I am
taking this advantage to write you in the interest of these 9 [Nego]
Negro boys and men that are under the death sentence in your state. I have
I have studied the situation from News Papers information. I am to con-
fess that I do not believe your christian heart will permit such a thg
thing a thing to take place during your administration.
I am southern borned, and know something about the south
ern Negro. In the first place you will have to agree with me that the girls
-ernxNegroxxxInxthexfirstxplacx placed themselves in the wrong relationship,
secondly I doubt very much as to the truth of these Negroes forcing or even
xx trying to force these girls, but the girls would natually be in sympathy
with the white boys that were put out of the cars, and I see no good reason
why they would remain in the car with these Negro boys.
You know what and easy matter it is to convict a Negro
in your state for a crime he never committed, while the couts dec-
clare all men innocent until proven guilty, we have turned the thing around
when dealing with the Negro. I pause here to say I am a minister of the
gospel of Jesus Christ and am a firm believer in the teachings of the bible
Which say "Be not deceived, God is not mocked whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap". While this sentence come thru a court decision, you
hold it within your power as Governor to commute to life sentence.
If these Negro boys are Electrocuted under your admin-
istration, it will be a case without precedence in the U.S. and will leave
a black mark on the history of the State of Ala. that will always detract
from the high moral status of the Governor that permitted this act to be
Legislature, and I believe in justice and fair play to all men.
I remain your in His name. Rexv O.J.Burckardt
1236 Washington St.
Lincoln Nebr.
Ps. Some how I have been prompted to write you this letter
hoping that you may note the contents prayerfully, supposing such a
charge under like conditions was made against your own son, what xxxx
would be your decision in the case.
Rev. O.J. Burckhardt
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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 Rev. O. J. Burckhardt, Lincoln, Nebraska, to the Honorable B. M. Miller Governor of Alabama.
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Burckhardt, O. J., Rev.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Christianity
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Rev. Burckhardt writes that he believes in "justice and fair play for all men" and hopes that Governor Miller will treat the Scottsboro Boys as innocent until proven guilty, or else there will be "a black mark" on his administration and the state of Alabama. The letter is on State of Nebraska Senate Chamber letterhead.
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1931-04-24
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Q
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Q0000063280
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Los Angeles, CA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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Los Angeles, Calif.
Nov. 24th 1 9 3 3
Mr. B. M. Miller
Governor of Alabama:
Montgomery, Ala.
Dear Sir:
As a citizen; a native American, and a
true believer in justice to the American people,
regardless of Race, color or creed; I hereby demand
that you Governor Miller, immediately order the
unconditional release of the "Scottboro boys" and
all other framed-up Negro workers in the state of
Alabama. I demand also, that the 13th, 14th and 15th
Amendments to the Constitution be enforced, in face
of the open contempt shown by the Southern Ruling
Class to these sections of the Federal Constitution.
(This also includs you Governor Miller.)
I further demand the death penalty for all
those implicated or advocating lynching. How long
do you Governor Miller plus the Southern Ruling
Class, expect to carry on your brutalities and mob-
rule against the Negro people? Is it not about time
your state in accordings to the 13th, 14th and 15th
Amendments to the Federal Constitution? You as
Governor of the state of Alabama, will be held personal
responsible for any "overt act" committed by mob-rule
against the Scottboro boys, or any other Negroes
that are being tortured or illigally thrown into jails
as mere frame-up.
I warn you at this time Governor Miller, to
act at once, as a law abiding citizen of the State of
Alabama, and of the United States. We will have no use
in this country of any state official, who fails to
carry out law, order and justice; and to protect the
workers in general-- which comprises approximately
80% of the population of this country. Please note,
Governor Miller; the demands as set forth in the above
paragraphs, and act according, for the good of yourself
and the people in general. The working people of
America will no longer tolerate lynch-rule, plus brute,
lawless force by and at the hands of City and state
officials selected to repersent the people.
Trusting you will uphold that is just to the
Negro working-class and act favorably to this end.
Slavery and brutality toward the Negro people in the
south must stop at once, and shall stop. If the
Officials disregard this act; these officials will be
stopped and prevented from carry out brute force and
mob-rule against innocent people, regardless of Race
Color or creed.
Your very truly,
Rev. Allan W. Johnson
Rev. Allan W. Johnson
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 16, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Rev. Allan W. Johnson in Los Angeles, California, to Mr. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Johnson, Allan W., Rev.
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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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Rev. Allan W. Johnson, a Los Angeles minister, demands the release of the Scottsboro Boys and the enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which, the writer states, have not been upheld by the "Southern Ruling Class," including Governor Miller. The writer also demands the death penalty for all of those advocating lynching. He writes that America has no use for a government official who is not law abiding.
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1933-11-24
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Q
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Q0000063294; Q0000063295
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Birmingham, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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766 Infantry, Company L, United States Army
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AFTER 5 DAYS RETURN TO BIRMINGHAM ALA
rev. a. v. pierce DEC 11 1130 AM 1933
# 1a20. 21 st Ensley ala ENSLEY STA.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Gov. Miller
Montgomery, Ala.
Dec. 4, 1933
Gov. Miller:
I appeal for justice in the behalv of the Negro race in the State of Alabama
and the United States of America.
I am a World War Veteran, served in the 766 infantry, Company L, one who helped
to fight to searve your country and your people. You promised to give me and
my people liberation and justice. You and your people refused to give us this;
here we live in your land and your country, we are like children without father
or mother.
Justice is one of God's attributes and requires all who rule to do justice by
all men; se that you and all that have the authority to rule, I know you can
help if you will. I ask you that rule to give that Nine Scottsboro Boys and
Willie Peterson, who fought for you and others, to give them justice.
I am one of your ministers and I ask you to give justice to the Negro race.
That is all we ask for in your land and country, yours in Christ,
Rev. A. V. Pierce.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004241, Folder 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Rev. A. V. Pierce, to Gov. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Pierce, A. V., Rev.
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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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Rev. A. V. Pierce, a World War I veteran, wonders why African Americans in the United States may fight for justice but receive none at home. He asks Governor Miller to give justice to African Americans.
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1933-12-04
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United States--Alabama--Birmingham
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English
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Q
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Q0000063258
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312 State Street, Adrian, MI
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Margaret Sasser
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Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church (Adrian, Mich.)
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Not guilty; release
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Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church
[Picture of a church captioned "THE COLLEGE CHURCH"] ALBERT WALLACE KAUFFMAN, Minister 312 State Street
ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.
July 14, 1933
The Hon. B. M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
My dear Governor Miller:
For some time several
of the pastors and churchmen of our community
have been studying the case of the nine
Scottsboro negro boys. From the evidence we
have at hand, the whole affair seems to be a
sad misscarriage of justice.
Cases such as these of
these nine unfortunate boys and the case of
Tom Mooney go a long way toward undermining
public confidence in our system of justice.
To say that such undermining is progressing
very rapidly today is but mildly to state the
case. As we of the churches know, this is not
confined to radical elements but is very pre-
valent among the more thoughtful and cultured
classes. Its effect upon courts and justice as
administered through courts in the future, cannot
be definitely gauged today. One cannot escape the
conviction, however, that the effect will be most
disastrous.
Many of us are hopeful that
you will use your powers as governor to release
these boys and thus bring to an end this most
unfortunate affair.
Respectfully and sincerely yours,
Albert W. Kauffman
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 17, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church in Adrian, Michigan, to Hon. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church (Adrian, Mich.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church (Adrian, Mich.); Christianity; Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942
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Albert W. Kauffman, the minister of Plymouth Methodist Protestant Church, writes that, given the evidence, the Scottsboro case seems to be a miscarriage of justice and that cases like it undermine public confidence in the justice system. He hopes that Governor Miller will use his power to release the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-07-14
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United States--Michigan--Adrian
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English
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