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Q
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Q0000063180; Q0000063181
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Philadelphia, PA
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Margaret Sasser
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Scottsboro Defense Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release, but is against "legal lynching"
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SB_F_1933.04.26_0910
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 17, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Flyer from Scottsboro Defense Committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to The Governor of Alabama, Executive Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Scottsboro Defense Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
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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; Scottsboro Defense Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Sent to "the Governor of Alabama," from the Scottsboro Defense Committee of Philadelpia, this flyer advertises a march from Philadelphia to Washington, to be held on April 26, 1933, in protest against the "legal lynching" of the nine defendants. It calls for a mass protest by Negro and white workers in order to save the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-04-26
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United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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English
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Flyer
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Q
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Q0000063007
Address
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1526 Ninth Street, Rockford, IL
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Franky Abbott
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International Order of Good Templars
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Not guilty; retrial
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Organization
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(Image of large (LODGE MEETING
brick building) VEGA LODGE EVERY THURSDAY EVE.
I.O.G.T. 8 O'CLOCK
1535 NINTH STREET TRUSTEES MEET
2ND MONDAY OF EACH MONTH
JUNIOR LODGE)
Scottsboro ROCKFORD, ILL.
May 15, 1931
Governor B. W. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Sir:
It has come to our knowledge through the press that eight negro
youths have been sentenced to death in the electric chair and
one to life imprisonment in Scottsboro, Ala. after being con-
victed of attacking two white girls on a train.
We quote the American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Ave.,
New York City on the matter.
1. The trial was rushed without time for adquate defense, the
boys being arrested on March 25th and tried 12 days later. The
court refused a postponement. The boys were represented only by
an attorney appointed by the court and by a Chattanooga lawyer,
unknown to them, selected by a minister's association.
2. Though the hysterical state of public opinion in Scottsboro
made a fair trial impossible, yet the judge refused a change of
venue. The courtroom was surrounded during the trial by a crowd
reliably estimated at 10,000 and by 1,000 soldiers called out by
the governor to prevent threatened lynchings and disorder. The
verdicts therefore were a foregone conclusion.
3. The two white girls, the only witnesses against the boys,
told conflicting and confused stories.
Therefore, be it resolved that we the undersigned, Vega Lodge #40,
I.O.G.T. (International Order of Good Templars( in meeting assem-
bled May 14, 1931, decided to inform your Honor of our opinion
in the matter. As an organization that stands for personal
rights and liberties in the truest sense of the word, we demand
that a new trial will be granted and a change of venue to another
court.
Respectfully yours,
(I.O.C.T. Vega Lodge #40 I.O.C.T.
imprint)
A. Olsen Pres.
C. Nelson Sec'ry
(note: adquate - adequate)
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SB_L_1931.05.15_0025
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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 Vega Lodge #40 (I.O.G.T.) in Rockford, Illinois, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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International Order of Good Templars--Vega Lodge #40 (Rockford, Il.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; International Order of Good Templars
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A. Olson, "Pres., C. Nelson, Secr'y, Vega Lodge #40 (I.O.G.T.)," cites the American Civil Liberties Union reporting on compromised circumstances surrounding the trial and asks for a retrial.
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1931-05-16
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United States--Illinois--Rockford
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English
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Q
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Q0000063031
Address
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9234 Pace Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Margaret Sasser
Affiliation
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Sunday School Board of the National Baptist Convention
Stance
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Not guilty; takes not stance in regards to retrial or release but wants to stay the execution for further investigation
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C.H. DUVALL
MEMBER OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION
REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
ARIZONA
ADDRESS 9234 Pace Avenue
PHONE Los Angeles, California
June 1, 1931
PASTOR OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MISSIONARY REST AND
BAPT. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
CHURCH
ROYAL COMMANDER OF K.A.M.C
PERFORMS MARRIAGES: ATTENDES FUNERALS
CONDUCTS REVIVALS AND MAKES A SPECIAL-
TY IN RAISING FUNDS FOR THE LIQUIDATION
OF LARGE CHURCH DEBTS, ETC.
A CARD WILL REACH ME AT THE ABOVE
ADRESS
To the Governor of the State of Alabama,
His Excellency ,
Sir:
There is awaiting execution of eight or nine Negro boy's in
Scottsboro, Alabama and from what I can glean through the papers
of the Southland, there is somewhat a doubt in the mind of the
people as to their actual guilt. However, it would be a presump-
tion on my part to attempt in any way whatever to criticise the
finding of the excellent jury who heard the case.
Your Honor, I am writing this letter unsolicited because I
believe there is mercy in the heart of the great Governor of the
State of Alabama. Born a slave myself and at one time was the
property of the famous General Abrahan Buford of Kentucky. Hence
I have had some experience in my seventy-five years in dealing
with my people. It is true if we are not all angels, it is equal-
ly true that we are not all devils and I am quite sure that your
Excellency will agree with my in this statement. The weeping and
wailing of their mother's and of many of our struggling group have
forced me to write this letter begging you to use your preogative
and stay the execution until further investigation can be made.
Believing as I do, your Honor, should you do so it would not
only permit you to be a blessing to humanity, but it would certainly
relieve the conscience's of those who are in power and would certainly
be a great favor to we old ex-slaves who have always tried to work
in conjunction with the white people for the betterment of out
people.
My dear Governor, if there be the slightest chance for mercy
in this case do show it at this point and thereby wipe the tears
away from our old weeping eyes and save a blot from the great name
of Alabama, the home of the greatest industrial center in the world
for my people.
Again I beg you to stay this execution.
Your most humble servant
C.H. Duvall
C. H. CuVall
CHD: DH
(note: criticise - criticize, Abrahan - Abraham, preogative - perogative)
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SB_L_1931.06.01_0405
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 40, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from C. H. DuVall in Los Angeles, California, to the Governor of the State of Alabama.
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DuVall, C. H.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Baptist Church
Description
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C. H. DuVall, a former slave, writes to ask Governor Miller to stay the Scottsboro Boys' execution. He also requests to have the case further investigated as a favor to the weeping mothers and ex-slaves, as he has heard a lot of doubt about the Scottsboro Boys' guilt. The letter is signed "your most humble servant."
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1931-06-01
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United States--California--Los Angeles
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English
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Q
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Q0000063034
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Wynndel, British Columbia, Canada
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Margaret Sasser
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Farmers Educational League (Wynndel, B.C., Canada)
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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International Locations, Organization
Transcription
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Scottsboro
Wynndel B.C., Canada
July 14, 1931.
Governor B.M. Miller
Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Sir,
We The Farmers Educational League
do emphatically protest against the
legal lynching of the eight negro boys
of Scottsboro.
When these boys were tried in an
atmosphere of rage, hysteria and class
vengeance, and that they were tried as
negroes and not as ordinary white men
was proven by the heredity and
fierceness of the trial
We demand then these boys be
released as they were only convicted
on prejudiced evidence.
Farmer's Educational League
Thos. E. Mountford Sect.
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SB_L_1931.07.14_0444
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004235, Folder 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Thos E. Mountford in Wynndel, British Columbia, Canada, to Governor B. M. Miller in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Farmers Educational League (Wynndel, B.C., Canada)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Farmers Educational League (Wynndel, B.C., Canada)
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Recorded by the secretary of the Farmers Educational League of Wynndel, Canada, this letter is mistakenly addressed to Governor Miller in Birmingham instead of Montgomery. The league protests against the legal lynching of the Scottsboro Boys, and believes them to have been "convicted on prejudiced evidence." The league asks for their release.
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1931-07-14
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Canada--British Columbia--Wynndel
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English
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Q
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Q0000063158; Q0000063159
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Organization
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Young Women's Christian Association
Stance
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Not guilty; pardon Haywood Patterson
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Organization
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Young Women's Christian Association
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN
ELLEN SMITH HALL APR 13
LINCOLN 2 8: 30 PM
1933
NEBR.
Mr. B. M. Miller, Governor
The State of Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Young Women's Christian Association
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
ADVISORY BOARD ELLEN SMITH HALL
Chairman LINCOLN
MRS. JOHN P. SENNING
Vice-Chairman MISS BERNICE A. MILLER
MISS MARGARET FEDDE General Secretary
Secretary
MISS CATHERINE DUNN
MRS. E. A. BURNETT Lincoln, Nebraska
MRS. A. L. CANDY April 12, 1933
MRS. F. D. COLEMAN
MRS. ROY GREEN
MISS AMANDA HEPPNER
MRS. E. A. HINMAN
MISS MARGARETE HOCHDOERFER
MRS. ARTHUR F. JENNESS
MRS. JAMES E. LEROSSIGNOL
MRS. C. PETRUS PETERSON
MISS ADELINE REYNOLDSON Mr. B. M. Miller, Governor
MRS. R. N. WESTOVER The State of Alabama
MRS. B. F. WILLIAMS Montgomery, Alabama
CABINET 1932-33 Dear Sir:
President
JANE ELIZABETH ROBERTSON We, a group of students at the University of
Vice-President Nebraska, have been greatly shocked at the second
CATHERINE WILLIAMS conviction of Heywood Patterson. Inasmuch as his
Secretary guilt has not been proved, we ask that you will
JANE BOOS grant him a pardon. We further request that you
Treasurer make provision for his future safety, realizing
ELEANOR DIXON that he is in the midst of a prejudiced group
Agricultural Campus that might resort to lynching.
Representative
HELEN HENGSTLER We would request your protection likewise for
Church Relations the other seven boys of the Scottsboro group.
BELLE MARIE HERSHNER
Conference The wrong that may be done these boys if they are
WILLA NORRIS all pronounced guilty, great as it will be, would
Finance be minor in comparison to the wrong dealt to the
EVELYN O'CONNOR cause of justice in American Courts. The State
Freshman Commission of Alabama will hardly wish to have such a blight
LORAINE LOVGREN upon its name. We therefore appeal to you as
Girl Reserve Leadership Governor to do all in your power now and later to
ALICE QUIGLE over come prejudice and see that justice is done.
Industrial Relations
MARTHA HERSHEY Very truly yours,
Membership
LUCILLE HENDRICKS YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF UNI. OF NEBR.
Nebraska in China
JEAN ALDEN Jean Alden
Posters
CONSTANCE KISER President
Program and Office
HELEN IRWIN Arelene C. Bore
Publicity (Miss) Roberta L. Coffee
JANE BOOS Chairman of Racial-National Relations Committee
Racial and National
Relations
CATHERINE WILLIAMS
RUTH CHERNY
Social
LOUISE HOSSACK
Sophomore Commission
ALICE BROWN
Upperclass Commission
ELIZABETH BARBER
Vespers and Worship
GERTRUDE CLARKE
Vespers Choir
WINNIFRED SHALLCRESS
World Forum
RUTH BERNSTEIN
Commission Leaders
ANNE BUNTING
MARY GILMORE
EVELYN HAAS
JANET VLCEK
[DISCUSSION]Heywood-Haywood[/DISCUSSION]
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SB_L_1933.04.12_0888
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 15, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Young Women's Christian Association of Uni. of Nebr. in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Mr. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Young Women's Christian Association of University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Ne.)
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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; Young Women's Christian Association (University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus))
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The members of the Young Women's Christian Association of the University of Nebraska write that they are shocked at the verdict from Haywood Patterson's second trial. They ask that he be pardoned and given safe conduct home, as they do not believe that his guilt has been proven.
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1933-04-12
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United States--Nebraska--Lincoln
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English
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Q
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Q0000063173; Q0000063174; Q0000063175; Q0000063176; Q0000063177
Address
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69 Bank Street, New York, NY
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Organization
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Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Organization
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New York, N. Y. Sta C [undecipherable] 12 10-pm 1933 Governor B.M. Miller <span style="text-decoration: underline;">State Capitol Building</span> Montgomery <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Birmingham</span> Ala. Sixty-nine Bank Street New York, N.Y. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">COPY</span> Concerned with justice and equality of opportunity for boys everywhere, and especially for the underprivileged and unemployed, we deplore the decision of the Decatur, Ala, jurors, in rendering the death verdict in the trial of Haywood Patterson in what is known as the Scottsboro case. We commend the fairness of the presiding judge, but regard the jury's verdict as one dictated by prejudices which make incalculably harder the work of fair play and social un- derstanding which our organizations aim at developing among boys and youth generally. We point to the fact that this whole lamentable situation was provoked partly by conditions of unemployment which sent the Negro lads out on the road job-seeking and resulted in conflict with their white fellow-hoboes; and we call upon a fair-minded public to anticipate similar conflicts by supporting recreational and social agencies seeking a general and effective solution of the problem of unemployed boys. (Signed) Walter Ludwig, Executive Director Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. (Signed) Abel Gregg, Executive Secretary for Boys Work, National Council Y.M.C.A (Signed) Weaver Pangburn, Director, Publicity Service, National Recreation Association PIONEER YOUTH OF AMERICA, Inc. Sixty - nine Bank Street - WAtkins 9-4627 - New York City April 12, 1933. Governor B.M. Miller State Capitol Bldg. Birmingham, Ala. Dear Governor Miller: The enclosed statement was submitted and discussed at a meeting of representatives of national agencies dealing with boys held yester- day in New York City. We are forwarding this protest of the Decatur decision to you be- cause it appears to us that there is a significant connection between the case of these Scotsboro boys and the problem of wandering and un- employed boys about which our agencies and the nation generally are con- cerned. We urge that you exert your good offices in the cause of justice and thus expedite our work with youth regardless of race, creed or sec- tion. Respectfully yours, wl.m Walter Ludwig Director President Thomas J. Curtis Vice-Presidents A. J. Muste Fannie M. Cohen Treasurer Walter Frank Advisors John Dewey William H. Kilpatrick Florence Curtis Hanson William F. Ogburn John Haynes Holmes Norman Thomas James Weldon Johnson Stephen S. Wise Chairman, National Committee E. C. Lindeman Chairman, Administrative Committee Henry R. Linville Executive Director Walter Ludwig BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers and Mary C. Barker Elisabeth Gilman Henry R. Linville Alfred L. Bernheim Sidonie M. Gruenberg Clarice A. Rosenthal LeRoy E. Bowman Henry T. Hunt Harry Rubenstein Frank R. Crosswaith Elizabeth A. Irwin Agnes Sailer David Dubinsky Andrew J. Kennedy Rose Schneiderman John Edelman Lucile Kohn A. I. Shiplacoff Frederick V. Field Joshua Lieberman Arthur L. Swift CHAIRMAN SUBCOMMITTEES Club Work Experimental Camping Le Roy E. Bowman Peace Education Joshua Lieberman Reinhold Niebuhr Interracial Education Progressive Education Walter White Student Groups Elizabeth A. Irwin Elliot D. Pratt Labor Mill and Mining Town Play School Thomas J. Curtis Agnes Sailor ENDORSED BY American Federation of Teachers; American Federation of Hosiery Workers; Baltimore Federation of Labor; Central Trades and Labor Council of N. Y. and Vicinity; Central Labor Union of Philadelphia; Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union; International Association of Machinists; Inter- national Brotherhood of Firemen ond Oilers; International Ladies Garment Workers; International Fur Workers Union; Pennsylvania Federation of Labor; United Hatters of America; United Textile Workers of America; and 162 Local Unions. THE NATIONAL INFORMATION BUREAU Pioneer Youth should not be confused with The Pioneers (Y. M. C. A.) or Young Pioneers of America (Communist). 181
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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 Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. in New York, New York, to Governor B. M. Miller in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
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From the director of the Pioneer Youth of America, Inc., this letter includes a copy of a statement about the Scottsboro case, produced from a meeting of representatives of national agencies in New York. The director writes that the case of the Scottsboro Boys is closely linked with the mission of the Pioneer Youth of America to deal with wandering and unemployed boys. He hopes that court decisions will not be ruled by prejudice and that officials will let organizations deal with struggling youth.
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1933-04-12
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United States--New York--New York
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063160; Q0000063161
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Berkley, MI
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Margaret Sasser
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Berkley Youth League (Berkley, Mich.)
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Not guilty; release
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ROYAL OAK
APR 15
12 30 PM
1933
MICH.
GOVERNOR MILLER
MONTGOMERY ALABAMA
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SB_L_1933.04.14_0894
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 15, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from the Berkley Youth League in Berkley, Michigan, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Berkley Youth League (Berkley, Mich.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Berkley Youth League (Berkley, Mich.)
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A meeting of the Berkley Youth League calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the Scottsboro Boys. They also demand a stoppage of persecution of African Americans in Alabama.
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1933-04-14
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United States--Michigan--Berkley
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Q
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Q0000063162; Q0000063163
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Chicago, IL
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Margaret Sasser
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University of Chicago Student League (Chicago, Il.)
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Not guilty; release
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Chicago. ILL.
APR 15 230 PM 1933
Hyde Park St
His Excellency, Governor Miller
Executive Mansion,
Montgomery, Alabama.
The University of Chicago
Governor Miller
Executive Mansion
Montgomery, Alabama.
Your Excellency:
The members of the National Student
League and its guests, assembled in
Mandel Hall on the University of Chicago
campus, unite in protest against the
verdict of guilty entered against Heywood
Patterson in Decatur, Alabama.
It is for you, Governor Miller, to
act to exercise your executive power to
free the nine innocent Scottsboro boys.
University of Chicago Student League
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SB_L_1933.04.15_0893
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 15, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from University of Chicago Student League, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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University of Chicago Student League (Chicago, Il.)
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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; National Student League (U. S.), University of Chicago Chapter
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Members of the University of Chicago Student League unite in protest against the verdict of Haywood Patterson's second trial and ask Governor Miller to exercise his power to free the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-04-15
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United States--Illinois--Chicago
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English
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Q
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Q0000063186; Q0000063187; Q0000063188
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129th St. and 7th Ave., New York, NY
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Margaret Sasser
Organization
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Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Not guilty; no stance in regards to retrial or release
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J. E. Liggan, New York, NY
2210 Fifth Avenue, Apr 2[] 930 pm 1933
New York City.
Honorable Governor Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Governor of the
State of Alabama.
-2-
4. We are living to-day in a world that is moving all the
time from one degree of intellect to another one that is
higher and still higher. White men have always had a better
chance to get some of this high and higher intellect.
It was sadly lacking in this jury that served at this trial.
5. It has also puzzled people all over the world why you as
Governor of the State of Alabama could read of this
terrible miscarriage of justice in every form, and you have
not lifted your voice once against it.
Surely as a man occupying such a high office as Governor
of the State of Alabama, <u>you must have some vestige of</u>
<u>humanity about you</u>; some sense of reason, to know that
these boys are innocent, and long ago should have been acquitted
The world at large knows and believes these boys are innocent,
then why spend Alabama's money foolishly in trials? This ex-
pense must come out of the pockets of the dwellers in that
particular county, either Scottsboro or Decatur, and I am
told the inhabitants of both of these places are the poorest
that we can find anywhere, both whites and Negros.
As Governor of the State of Alabama, everyone feels that
you could do much good in trying to set things right in this
(now) world wide case that has even reached other continents.
Do not let it be too late to do the good that you can do.
Remember Pontius Pilate, when Christ came before him on
trial and after hearing the evidence, what did he say?
"I do not find any wrong this man hath done." He then
called for a basin of water to wash his hands of the matter.
Governor Miller, do not stand ready to wash your hands, but
stand up and be a hero in the strife, especially when you
know how inhuman, how unfair, how unjust all of this pro-
cedure has been. A word from you in this great trial means
much in righting a great wrong.
6. Last but not least, may we hear a word from you. Our club
is most anxious to know your attitude in this famous trial.
Thanking you for an immediate reply, we are,
Sincerely yours,
Phyllis Wheatley Club,
Salem M. E. Church, N.Y.
Julia E. Liggon President,
2210 Fifth Avenue,
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SB_L_1933.04.21_0918
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Phyllis Wheatley Club in New York, New York, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Phyllis Wheatley Club (New York, N.Y.)
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The Phyllis Wheatley Club asks why rape is punishable by death in Alabama and why the state disregards constitutional law by refusing to allow African Americans to serve on juries. The club asks about other specifics of the case and urges Governor Miller not to stand idly by, but to stand up for the Scottsboro Boys. They hope for a response.
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1933-04-21
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United States--New York--New York
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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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