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This telegram from the Committee for Deliverance of the Victims of Scottsboro is signed by a group of Berlin-based intellectuals--"Professor Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Kaete Collwitz, Alfons Goldschmidt, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Karl von Ossietzky."…

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This telegram from 25,000 workers and 1,000 visitors of Rote Hilfe Schweiz (Red Aid in Switzerland) protests "the death of those Negro boys." It protests their deaths following the 1931 stay of execution pending appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.…

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Four thousand assembled citizens at the Washington park Forum Opening 38th Year demand a new trial for the Scottsboro Boys after their 1931 convictions. This telegram asks: "Is this southern justice [sic]"

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Signed by Unemployed Councils, Branch 1 from a "Local Anti-Fascist Conference" on December 10, 1933, this form resolution heeds the "call of the I.L.D." in protesting the "outrageous procedure and conduct of the Scottsboro trials." It expresses…

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Responding to the 1933 Decatur trial and claiming the Scottsboro Boys' innocence, employees of Pennsylvania Dye Works ask for the defendants' unconditional and immediate release and declare a half-hour work stoppage in protest. This resolution is one…

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This resolution from the Haywood Patterson Branch of the International Labor Defense demands the Scottsboro Boys' immediate release, the enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and "the immediate assurance of equality for the Negro…

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Workers in Chicago ask for the release of Eugene Williams and Roy Wright before their June 22, 1933 Juvenile Court trial in Decatur. This is one of many similar form resolutions on this subject in the archive.

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This resolution from 400 workers and farmers assembled for the May Day Conference in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, protests the conviction of Haywood Patterson at the 1933 trial and demands immediate release for all the Scottsboro Boys. It connects…

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Seventy-three Auto Union members protest the 1933 Decatur trial at a meeting. Their resolution claims that "lynch spirit" prevented the selection of an impartial jury and holds the Governor responsible for the Scottsboro Boys' safety. This group was…

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The Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174—a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party—reacts to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur. The resolution asks that…
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