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Q
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Q0000063168; Q0000063169
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Oakland, CA
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Margaret Sasser
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E. C. Fellows Lodge, No. 143, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (Oakland, Ca.)
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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E.R.Noldin, 1 30 PM UNITED STATES POSTAGE
P.O.Box 43, 2 1933 3 CENTS 3
Oakland, California. CALIF.
To the Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery,
Alabama,
U.S.A.
E. C. Fellows Lodge, No. 143
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen
Oakland, California
9
April 11th, 1933
To the Honorable,
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Honorable Sir:
The "Scottsboro Case" is now a National
scandal.
In our lodge there are members who
have had as high as 39 years railroad experience. We
have many members of 25 years railroad experience in
the Transportation Department.
It is the concenus of the opinion of these
railroad veterans that women who ride railroad trains
as vagrants do so for a certain purpose as they cannot
compete with the harlots of the cities. It is the opinion
of many of the citizens of California that justice will
not prevail in your state, in this case, account of prejudice
to the colored people.
Once the President of the United States had
to intercede in order that justice may prevail in California,
I hope ,speaking for the members of Lodge 143, B. of L.F.&E.,
(there being 10 lodges of this organization in your state)
that you will handle this case in such a manner that justice
will prevail and preserve the fair name of Alabama. Awaiting
your reply, I am,
Yours respectfully,
R. M. Rickwood
President Lodge 143, B. of L.F.&E.,
2690-75th-Avenue,
Oakland, California.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 16, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from E. C. Fellows Lodge, No. 143, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in Oakland, California, to The Honorable Governor of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; E. C. Fellows Lodge, No. 143, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (Oakland, Ca.)
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The members of the E. C. Fellows Lodge, No. 143, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of Oakland, California, mention to Governor Miller that railroad veterans believe that women who ride trains are vagrants and prostitutes who cannot compete with the prostitutes in cities. The letter asks Governor Miller to see to it that justice prevails in this case and that it not be affected by prejudice against African Americans.
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1933-04-11
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Q0000063262
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Trades Hall, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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Franky Abbott
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Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
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Not guilty; release
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Federated Ironworkers' Associaton of Australia
Newcastle Branch
Telephone: Newcastle 931
Trades Hall, Newcastle, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AUSTRALIA.
12TH. September, 1933.
His Excellency,
Governor, State of Alabama,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Dear Sir,
I have been instructed by the members
of the Newcastle branch of the Federated Ironworkers'
Association of Australia to most emphatically protest
against the verdict of the death sentence imposed on the
Scottsboro boys, and demand their immediate release, owing
to the hideous and frame-up evidence of the two women,
Bates and Carter.
Faithfully Yours,
E. Charlesworth
Secretary.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, to Governor, State of Alabama, United States of America.
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Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
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The Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch, protests the March 1933 Decatur verdicts, demands the defendants' immediate release, and blames their convictions on a "frameup" by Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.
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1933-09-12
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Q
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Q0000063268; Q0000063269; Q0000063270
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490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY
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Franky Abbott
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The Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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The Riverside Church
Riverside Drive at 122nd Street
New York, N.Y.
Ministers November 17, 1933.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
EUGENE C. CARDER
C. IVAR HELLSTORM
The Honorable B. M. Miller,
Montgomery,
Alabama.
Dear Sir:
I hesitate to invade your time but we here in the North are
deeply disturbed over the reports in the newspapers about
the conditions that are likely to surround the trial of the
negro boys, now made famous in the Scottsboro case.
This concern of ours is not in any way critical of you or
the officers of the law involved in the matter. Upon the
contrary we profoundly sympathize with the difficulties which
this case involves everybody in. In particular, let me say
that I think one of the major tragedies in the whole matter
has been the fact that the defense of these boys has fallen
onto the hands of a Communist group, who are exploiting the
trial in the interest of their cause, and are deliberately
and I think disgracefully sacrificing to this propaganda
the welfare of the boys themselves. This, and many other
things, I could say in expression of my understanding of the
complexities of the situation. Nevertheless, we are des-
perstely hoping that the result will not be that the boys
themselves will become the scapegoats, and have visited
upon them a trial carried on in atmosphere that will make
the execution of justice almost impossible.
I take the liberty of writing this because personally I was
largely instrumental in sending Ruby Bates back to the first
trial where she was fearful of going on account of threats of
violence. I think I understand pretty well the shabby moral
background of Ruby Bates, and have none too much confidence in
her stability of mind, since, in the first trial, she needlessly
lied about me when she said that I had given her the dress she
wore. Nevertheless, my conversation with her as a Christian
minister convinced me that she did want on the major matter
to tell the truth concerning the innocence of the boys, that
she was profoundly distubred over carrying the responsibility of their condemnation through her false testimony in the
previous trial, and she left me convinced that the overwhelming
probabilities are that the boys themselves are not guilty.
All that I am pleading for, however, is that either the present
newspaper stories indicating that lynch law is about to assume
control over even the witnesses be denied, and any suspicion
of intimidation of witnesses be removed, or else that the
Governor B. M. Miller Nov. 17, 1933.
DR. H. E. Fosdick.
stability of the trial be assured by calling out the National
Guard.
I am taking the liberty of writing you thus with friendly
frankness because I am simply one of multitudes of sympathetic
people here who are not fanatical, who do not fail to under-
stand the situation in Alabama, who are, I think, level-headed
and conservative-minded about it, but who are deeply disturbed
by the present posture of events, and are hoping that every
possible means will be taken to avoid a miscarriage of
justice.
Respectfully yours,
Harry Emerson Fosdick
NOV. 20, 1933
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick,
Riverside Drive at 122nd Street
New York, N.Y.
Dear Dr. Fosdick:
Your favor of November 17th with
reference to the Scottsboro case received.
I appreciate your interest and the
spirit of your letter.
I have of course kept in close touch
with the situation. The civil authorities in
whom I have every confidence, after careful in-
vestigation informed me that a military guard
was not necessary. I have, however, authorized
fifteen additional deputies, at the expense of
the State, to attend the trial and parties.
Knowing the actual conditions as I do, I believe
this ample protection.
With best wishes, I am
Yours very truly,
B. M. MILLER,
Governor.
BMM:M
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 8, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Riverside Church in New York, New York, to the Honorable B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Fosdick, Harry Emerson
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; The Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.); Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969; Christianity; Communism
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Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church, writes to Governor Miller to express concern about Scottsboro and sympathies for the interference of self-interested communist groups who have complicated matters. He discusses his work with Ruby Bates prior to the 1931 trial in which he attempted to persuade her to tell the truth. Because of this work and Bates' subsequent 1933 testimony, he believes the Scottsboro Boys are not guilty and asks the Governor to disallow lynch law from assuming control in Alabama by calling out the National Guard. Governor Miller's response to Reverend Fosdick states that, after investigation, he believes that a military guard is not necessary.
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1933-11-17
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English
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Q
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Q0000063070; Q0000063071
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Enid, OK
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Margaret Sasser
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Former state senator for the state of Oklahoma
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Uncertain; encourages review of convictions
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<u>Scottsboro</u> HARRY O. GLASSER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ENID, OKLAHOMA
May 25, 1932
His Excellency, the
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Sir:
Am enclosing herewith an editorial
clipped from the Manchester Guardian of Manchester,
England.
I sincerely trust that you will allow
the opportunity of a review of these convictions by
the United States Supreme Court.
Very respectfully,
Harry O. Glasser
HG:LV Harry O. Glasser
Former State Senator of
the State of Oklahoma
Still Time for Justice
The world has just been profoundly
shocked by a particularly senseless and
cruel example of political assassination ;
unless the Governor of Alabama intervenes
with a reprieve which will allow
a much-discussed case to be carried to
the Supreme Court of the United States
there is the gravest risk that all those
who care for lar, order, and the
decencies of civilised life will suffer
another horrid shock. Friday, June 24,
has been fixed for the execution
of seven negro youths, not one of
them older than twenty years, who were
tried at Scottsboro, Alabama, a year
ago on a charge of having raped two
white girls of bad reputation. In the
beginning nine negro boys were
arraigned on the same charge of rape,
after being arrested in the first place
on a charge of vagrancy arising out of
a fight with some white youths. The
charge of rape was added later when
two of the negros' travelling companions
were found to be white girls of
the looser sort. In the case of one
boy - aged fourteen - the jury could
not agree ; the remaining eight were
sentenced to death. One of them - a
child of thirteen when he was charged -
has been put back for another trial ;
the remaining seven, whose sentence
has been confirmed by the Supreme
Court of Alabama, are to die on
June 24. It is a tangled and evil tale
of negros, "poor whites," and racial
jealousy, complicated by this time with
Communist propaganda and disputes
over the conduct of such defense as
there has been. But the main point is
this ; that in no other civilised country
could such a trial have been held and
such sentences pronounced. Even a
month ago the "Times" New York
correspondent was writing :
Outside the South the case is very generally
regarded as an example of "legal lynching" ;
and even in the South there are many
who admit that the evidence against the
boys is as flimsy as it well could be, and
political grounds.
The truth is that if these seven boys
are done to death next month a
blacker chapter will have been written
in the history of the Southern States
than any which records the numerous
mob lynchings in those regions, for this
lamentable affair has every appearance
of mass lynching by legal process.
There is still time for the world of
restraint - not from the voice of mercy,
but from the voice of reason, justice,
and self-respect.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 5, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Harry O. Glasser in Enid, Oklahoma, to His Excellency in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Glasser, Harry O.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Manchester Guardian
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Harry O. Glasser, an attorney and former senator, hopes that Governor Miller will allow the Supreme Court of the United States to review the Scottsboro Boys' convictions and encloses a clipping from the Manchester [England] Guardian.
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1932-05-25
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United States--Oklahoma--Enid
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Q
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Q0000063225; Q0000063226
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2520 E. 14th Street, Oakland, CA
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Margaret Sasser
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Household of Ruth, No. 253 (San Francisco, Ca.), Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
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Not guilty; release
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DISTRICT GRAND 2 OAKLAND
HOUSEHOLD of RUTH No. 28 MAY 22 630 PM 1933
G.U.O. of O.F. of CALIFORNIA CALIF.
VICTORIA G. LeBEOUF
D.G.M.N.G.
2520 E. 14th STREET OAKLAND, CALIF.
Hon. B.M. Miller,
State Capitol,
Montgomery, Ala.
Governor of Alabama
...Meets...
1st Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday
Nights
Hamilton Hall Household of Ruth No. 253
Geary and Steiner Streets Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
San Francisco, Calif., May 22, 1933
Honorable B.M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Ala.
Honorable Sir:-
The Household of Ruth No. 253, Grand United Order
of Odd Fellows of America are hereby appealing to you for the un-
conditional release of the Scottsboro Boys.
We firmly believe that these boys are innocent which
has really been proven by one of the State's witnesses, and we trust
that your belief in fairness will prevail in the case of these boys
and that you will grant their release.
Yours for Justice,
Angelina Holiday,
Most Noble Governor.
Victoria G. Le Beauf
Worthy Recorder.
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 9, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Household of Ruth, No. 253 in San Francisco, California, to Honorable B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Household of Ruth, No. 253 (San Francisco, Ca.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Household of Ruth, No. 253; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (San Francisco, Ca.)
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The Household of Ruth, No. 253, of San Francisco, California, asks Governor Miller for the Scottsboro Boys' unconditional release.
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1933-05-22
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United States--California--Oakland
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Q
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Q0000063281; Q0000063282; Q0000063283
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New Orleans, LA
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Margaret Sasser
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International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers in North America (New Orleans, LA)
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Organization
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I.A. P E of N.A 4 NEW ORLEANS RED CROSS
126 Exchange Place NOV 28 530 PM 1933 ROLL CALL
New Orleans, LA LA. JOIN
Governor Miller
State House
Montgomery
Alabama
FOR
HUMANITY'S
SAKE
DONT BUY
GERMAN GOODS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROJECTIONISTS
AND
SOUND ENGINEERS OF NORTH AMERICA
126 Exchange Please New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans, La.
November 27th, 1933.
Judge W.W. Callahan,
Circuit Court,
Morgan County,
Decatur, Alabama.
Your decision ruling Negros off a Jury of any one of the
Scottsboro Boys trials presages a legal lynch verdict directed by the White
Ruling Class of Alabama.
Unless Negroes are on the juries trying the Scottsboro
Boys there will be no trial of these defendants based on the letter of the
law that all defendants before the bar shall be tried by a jury of their peers.
As Class Conscious White Southern Born Workers, members of
our organization challenge this attempted legalistic interpertation of Justice
on your part by evasion of knowledge of the innocence of these defendants and
the refusal to permit D fense Counsel the right of a panel of jurymen on which
Negroes are named so that for the first time in the history of the Southern
States a Negro may receive Justice at the hands of his own people. Are you
afraid that by permitting a panel on which Negroes are named, these Boys will
be found not GUILTY?
Before the workers of the world the Scottsboro Boys are
innocent and will be proven so if granted all their rights under the law usually
granted to white defendants. Insofar as the Justice of these demands is concern-
ed, TRUTH loving followers of Jesus Christ recognize in the testimony of Ruby
Bates during the trial of Heywood Patterson Last Spring, the innocence of the
Scottsboro Boys and the F ame-up of the State of Alabama. A burning indictment
of Alabama Lynch Justice (reserved for Negroes and friends of the Negro People
only) has been forged by the telling of the TRUTH by Ruby Bates and shall never
be effaced from the Memory of Man.
You are being judged by what you fail to do, rather that
by your legal interpertations of Law and the entire world sits in judgement of
you. A world of the rising Proletariat demands an unconditional release of the
Scottsboro Boys and the writing of Finis to a grim Comedy staged by a decadent
Feudal Social Order some 200 years out of date.
To us the South is the land of F eedom, not Hate; the land of
Democracy, not hypocrisy; the land of Promise to the oppressed peoples of the
world, not a land overflowing with Prejudice, Bigotry and Racial Discrimination.
We white workers of the South are weary of this so-called "white supremacy"
nightmare, wherein the starving white workers are whipped into a frenzy to crush
ever lower the standard of living of the Negro masses, resulting in a direct
lowering of our own standards of living because of submission to the wishes of
an exploiting ruling class maintaining economic slavery for both white and
black workers.
Giver these Scottsboro defendants the same privileges under
the law you would demand of the Negro people if your positions were reversed.
Very truly,
CC PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT International Association of Projectionists
CC GOVERNOR MILLER. and Sound Engineers of North America.
By Maurice Clark
Secretary.
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SB_L_1933.11.27_1090
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 17, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers of North America in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Judge W. W. Callahan in Decatur, Alabama.
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International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers in North America (New Orleans, LA)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Callahan, William Washington, b. 1863; Bates, Ruby, -1976; Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912
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Union members of the International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers in North America write that the White Ruling Class of Alabama prevents the Scottsboro Boys from having a fair trial, as they do not have a jury of their peers. The union members ask if this is because the White Ruling Class is afraid the Scottsboro Boys would be found not guilty. They write that Judge Callahan, who presided over the trials beginning in October 1933, is being judged by what he fails to do. Many unions like this one wrote to the Governor in support of the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-11-27
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United States--Louisiana--New Orleans
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063202; Q0000063203
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Carbondale, IL
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Margaret Sasser
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Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
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Not guilty; no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Murphysboro
May 1 11 am 1933
Ill.
Gov. Miller
Executive Mansion
Montgomery, Ala.
Officers:
W. F. Oliver, Vice Pres. Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters
Elkville, Ill. Dr. W. F. Mooreland, President
Thomas Ayer, Recording Sec. 311 N. Washington Ave.
Murphysboro, Ill. Carbondale, Ill.
F. B. Jackson, Corresponding Sec.
307 S. Marion St.
Carbondale, Ill.
Joe Blackwell, Treas.
Murphysboro, Ill.
Murphysboro, Ill.
April 26, 1933
Hon. Miller Gov.
State of Ala.
Dear Sir:
We the officers and members of the Jackson
County Organization of Colored Votes. Are reques-
ing you to exercise you executive authorityin the
Scotsburg Case. We hope you will consider that the
Eight Boys are human and not animals. As chief ex-
cutive of your state, We know that you took an
oath to support the Constitution of you state and
the United States.
We wish you would read Acts. 10; 34, Acts. 17;
26. and Gal. 6;7. Yours truly,
Thomas Ayer Sec.y
W.F. Mooreland Pres
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SB_L_1933.04.26_0940
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 1, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters in Carbondale, Illinois, to Hon. Miller Gov. in Alabama.
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Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Jackson County Organization of Colored Voters (Carbondale, Il.)
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The Jackson County [Illinois] Organization of Colored Voters asks Governor Miller to exercise his power in the Scottsboro case and to treat the nine boys like fellow human beings. They ask the Governor to support the Constitution of the United States and to read Acts 10:34, Acts 17:26, and Gal 6:7.
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1933-04-26
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United States--Illinois--Murphysboro
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English
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Q
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Q0000063106; Q0000063107
Address
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543 W. 123 St., New York, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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Rice Institute (a graduate of)
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Uncertain; insists on a fair trial
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Luke Osburn
543 W. 123 St.
N. Y. C. NEW YORK N.Y. STA. J1
MAR 29
8-PM
1933
The Governor of Alabama
Baton Rouge, Alabama.
543 W. 123 St., N. Y. C.
The Governor of Alabama,
Baton Rouge, Alabama.
Dear SIR:
I should like to urge you to use you influence in
assuring to the Scottsboro Boys a just trial. I believe I
voice the sentiment of enlightened America when I ask this.
I have lived many years in the South and I love it. We are
not criticizing the State of Alabama, and we have no intense
interest in saving the lives of certain negros whom we have
never seen. But we are decidedly interested in the principle
of the thing. After a fair trial and air-tight evidence, we
shall have nothing more to say if they are executed. But we
do not wish America and the State of Alabama to be shamed by
the conviction of innocent people--or the conviction of even
guilty people without ^fair^ trial. It is that right of every human
being on earth to a fair trial before punishment that we will
fight for from this day on to the crack of doom.
This pleasant little matter of the jury.... I wonder
how a white man would like to be tried by a jury all Chinese, or
Mexicans, or Tasmanians, or Eskimos? How would a white man who
had raped a negress like to be tried by an all-black jury? Would
he have a chance of a fair trial?
I call myself a Southerner, but I tell the State of
Alabama this: If you convict the Scottsboro Boys on bad evidence
and with an all-white jury, it will be an everlasting stain on
your state and it will not be forgotten. (And by the way I am
not a negro but a white and a graduate of the Rice Institute
in Houston, Texas.Yours truly,
Luke Osburn
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SB_L_1933.03.29_0784
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 22, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Luke Osburn in New York City, to The Governor of Alabama in Baton Rouge, Alabama.
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Osburn, Luke
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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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Luke Osburn asks Governor Miller to use his influence to give the Scottsboro Boys a just trial. He writes that he does not criticize the state of Alabama and he is not particularly interested in the Scottsboro Boys themselves, but he is especially concerned about the principle of a fair trial, namely "air-tight evidence" and a jury of peers.
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1933-03-29
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United States--New York--New York
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English
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Q
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Q0000063275; Q0000063276; Q0000063277
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415 Bellville St., Evergreen, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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International Labor Defense
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Individual Voices, Organization
Transcription
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415 Bellville st, EVERGREEN
Evergreen, Ala Dec 1 PM
ALA.
Govner B, M, Miller
Mont gomery , Ala
MARY J. BIGGS
415 BELLVILLE ST.
EVERGREEN, ALA.
Dcoe First 1993
415 Bellville st
Evergreen, ala
Govner B, M, Miller Dear Sir,
May I, Ask A Favor Of you . And Your staff, The Internation
labor Defencse Ask A contribution of me in the be half xxx
of the Scottsborio New Trial For HaywoodPatTersonIn fact
Alof thoesNineBoys they Have had in Prisen Al this time
Since I did not have the donation I take This Methord
of helping Knowing That you are in the judge seat will you
order out the gardes in the time of their trial ifneed
bee, to protect them and there witness
very trully mary J, Biggs
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SB_L_1933.12.01_1077
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Mary J. Biggs in Evergreen, Alabama, to Govner B. M. Miller.
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Biggs, Mary J.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Patterson, Haywood, b. 1912; International Labor Defense
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Mary J. Biggs, an Alabamian, writes that the International Labor Defense asked her for a contribution to the Scottsboro Boys' fund. Because she did not have the money, she decides to write to Governor Miller to ask that he protect the boys.
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1933-12-01
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United States--Alabama--Evergreen
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English
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Q
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Q0000063075
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Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
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Franky Abbott
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Communist Party
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N/A (asks governor to postpone execution)
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Individual Voices, International Locations, Organization
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Cabo Rojo, P.R.,
20 de junio de 1932.
Hon. Gobernador de Alabama,
Alabama,
Senor:
De acuerdo con la decision de las cortes seran ajus-
ticiados un grupo de jovenes negres dentro de podos dias.
Senor, en estos momentos en que el mundo entero se agita
y se precipita al borde de una revolucion social se impo-
ne un sereno y ecuanime proceder. No creemos que sea la
forma mas correcta y adecuada de llevar a la silla elec-
trica a esos jovenes negros para que de esa manera se
les castigue por un delito cometido. Creemos firmemente
que un delito no se lava ni se esruma su aureola de mal-
dad con otro delito como lo es el de matar a quien mata.
Mataron esos jovenes negros a alguien? No lo sabemos.
Pero cualquiera que haya sido su delito, no debe aparejar-
le la pena capital habida cuenta de que es un delito mayor
el que se comete cuando sun piedad y misericordia alguna
son llevados a la silla electrica.
En nombre de la santa libertad, en nombre de los
mas puros sentimientos de humanidad, en nombre toda esa
democracia de que se vanagloria el pueblo americano, tened
piedad y misericordia, senor, de esos jovenes negros. Or-
denad, senor, que se posponga la ejeccion de ellos para
que vuestra conciencia no os acuse de un mal peor que el
que esas pobres victimas hayan causado a la sociedad.
Nosotros protestamos energicamente contra ese acto
cruel de matar en nombre de la justicia. Eso no es humano,
senor. Eso es retroceder a la barbarie. Eso es aumentar
el caos social en que se desenvuelve este mundo. Oid nue-
tra suplica no por el bien que se pueda hacer a esos des-
graciados, sino por la tranquilidad vuestra.
Por el grupo comunista,
Miguel Ortega
Jinto Berenguer
Translation
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Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
June 20, 1932
Honorable Governor of Alabama
Alabama
Sir:
In accordance with the decision of the courts, a group of young, Negro men will be brought to justice in a few days. Sir, in these times when the entire world is agitated and on the verge of a social revolution, this course of action is being taken coldly and without feeling. We do not believe it is correct to send these young men to the electric chair for the crime committed. We do not believe their alleged crime to be as serious as the taking of another human life.
In the name of holy liberty, in the name of the purest human sentiments, in the name of the democracy in which the American people take pride, take pity upon and have mercy with these young Negroes, sir. Postpone their execution so that your conscience does not accuse you, sir, of a crime worse than that which these poor victims may have caused society.
We vigorously protest this cruel act of execution in the name of justice. This action is not human, sir. It is a return to barbarism. It will increase the chaos into which the world is now descending. Hear our plea, not for the good it may do for these unfortunates, but rather for the sake of your own peace.
For the communist group,
Miguel Ortega
Justo Berenguer
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SB_L_1932.06.20_0720
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Miguel Ortega and Justo Berenguer in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, to Hon. Gobernardor de Alabama, Alabama.
Creator
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Ortega, Miguel and Justo Berenguer
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Communism in Puerto Rico
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Two Puerto Rican communists plead with the Governor to postpone the execution of the Scottsboro Boys. The letter makes the case for postponement by advocating against the death penalty in all contexts and asks the Governor to show mercy for his own "peace of mind."
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1932-06-20
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Puerto Rico--Cabo Rojo
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Spanish
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Letter
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