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Q
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Q0000063110
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Atlanta, GA
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Franky Abbott
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Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race (Atlanta, Ga.)
Stance
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N/A (calls for the Decatur trial to be halted until representation issues are resolved)
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Organization
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SB_T_1933.03.27_0785
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 23, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Telegram from Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race in Atlanta, Georgia, to Governor B.M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race (Atlanta, Ga.)
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race (Atlanta, Ga.)
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Signed by "Mrs. J. E. Andrews, President," this telegram from the Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race requests that Governor Miller take no further action towards the Decatur trial, presided over by Judge Horton, until the NAACP and the "Negro-manned" International Labor Defense cease their persecution of white women. This organization was founded in 1931, just two years before the creation of this telegram.
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1933-03-27
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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English
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Telegram
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Q
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Q0000063060; Q0000063061; Q0000063062; Q0000063063; Q0000063064; Q0000063065
Address
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Atlanta, GA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; retrial
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Individual Voices
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ATLANTA, GA (Stamp: Red
APR 29 Washington
230 PM 2¢ 1932
1932 United
STA.B. States
Postage)
Gov. B.M. Miller
of
Montgomery Ala.
if not received return Back to
70 1/2 one Waugh Blvd
Atlanta GA
Scottsboro
A!
Atlanta GA.
April 28-32.
Dear ser.
I am riten you just a
few line to let you
here from me I am a
mother of one of the
ScottsBaro Boys Viola
Montgomery I have prayed
to god and I have razed
money and I have did
Every thing I no to do
try to get a new trile
for me sun and it
seam like my sun
will have to go to that
chair any how now I
(notes: ser-- sir, riten -- writing, here -- hear, ScottsBaro -- Scottsboro,
razed -- raised, trile -- trial, sun -- son, seam -- seem)
2
will come to you wont
you please have mursey
on my Sun and the
rest of the Boy you
no the Boys ant Guilty
of nothing But hobo.
listen I am Negro Woman
But god made me for some
cause I dont no all I no
I am here and I love my
sun just like your
mother love you and I
will say this I []
from the love of sin
and I ant a friad to die
because I have died one time
I ant gonta die no more
3
so I will ask you plese
have mursey on our Boys
I wish I could see you
and talce to you corse I
no you wood not listen
at me But they are a day
or coming we are gonta
be sarrie and we dont
make Frind and get in
union we are all gonta
be destroid Bleve it or
not for they are to much
sin going on now days
well I will close from
one of the ScottsBoro
Boys motha Viola Montgomery
(notes: plese -- please, mursey -- mercy, talce -- talk, corse -- course, no -- know,
wood -- would, gonta -- gonna, sorrie -- sorry, frind -- friend, destroid --
destroyed, bleve -- believe, motha -- mother)
4
Olen Montgomery motha
70 1/2 me Waugh
Blvd
so atlanta Ga-
plese anser my letter
(notes: motha -- mother, plese -- please, anser -- answer)
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SB_L_1932.04.28_0695
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Viola Montgomery in Atlanta, Georgia, to Ser (Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama).
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Montgomery, Viola
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
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Viola Montgomery—the mother of one of the Scottsboro Boys, Olen Montgomery—writes to Governor Miller to plead with him for a retrial for her son. She has prayed to God, raised money, and does not know what else to do in order to prevent her son's execution. She believes that the Scottsboro Boys are guilty of no more than being hobos, and asks the Governor to think about things from a mother's perspective.
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1932-04-28
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063194
Address
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Birmingham, AL
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Organization
Transcription
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Birmingham Ala
April 21.1933
Hon. B miller dear sir we the
workers of Ala Demand
the release of all of the scotts
Burrauer Boyes and also
the Sheare croppers and
Peterson and we Demand
that negro sit on Jouries
and that they Be allowed
to vote and that they allso
have eaqueal rights and
have eaquial Equality
and that they not Be
Descriminated againse
and we Demand that you
do something for the scott
Borra Boys right away
we are yours the workers
of Birmingham Ala
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SB_L_1933.04.21_0935
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 20, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from The Workers of Birmingham, Alabama, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Hon. B. Miller.
Creator
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The Workers of Birmingham, Alabama
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
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Workers of Birmingham, Alabama, demand the release of the Scottsboro Boys and the right for African Americans to sit on juries and to vote.
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1933-04-21
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United States--Alabama--Birmingham
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English
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Q
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Q0000063021; Q0000063022
Address
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Fackler, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; state execution
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Individual Voices
Transcription
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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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SB_L_1931.05.05_0356
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 24, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from 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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United States--Alabama--Fackler
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English
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Q
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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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Individual Voices, Organization
Transcription
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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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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 17, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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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
Subject
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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
Description
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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!"
Date
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1933-07-25
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United States--Connecticut--Hartford
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English
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Q
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Q0000063051
Address
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Affiliation
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Tuskegee Institute
Stance
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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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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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SB_L_1931.04.14_0606
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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
Description
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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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English
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Q
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Q0000063294; Q0000063295
Address
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Birmingham, AL
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Affiliation
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766 Infantry, Company L, United States Army
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Transcription
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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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SB_L_1933.12.04_1104
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004241, Folder 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Title
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Letter from Rev. A. V. Pierce, to Gov. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Pierce, A. V., Rev.
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
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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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Text
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Q
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Q0000063035
Address
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Jacksonville, FL
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Scottsboro
South Jax, Fla.
Dear Governor:
I know God. I have tried Him out and I find Him to be
real. I believe every word of His. I even believe that about His
taking note of every strand of hair in our heads and His noting the
fall of the sparrow. I certainly believe what he says about our
reaping what we sow. Above all things I believe he hears the
prayers of the humble.
Unless you are dead sure about the guilt of every one of those boys,
I beg in His name and in the eternal well being of your self and
those who come after you not to persecute those youths though they
are not of our people. Now you know and God knows. Don't kick
against the prick. Do not tempt the patience of God. Earnest
prayers are going up every day and God's ears are open.
I am white and southern just like you are but somehow last night I
was urged by something within to get this over to you. This in spite
of the fact that I know very little of this case. I dreamed first
that I saw in the prison the electric chair and a thrill of horror
shook me. The some one in my dream told me this was the torture of
those black boys day and night. "Tell the governor that God is not
mocked; what soever a man soweth that shall He also reap" that "even
he is in God's hands that he has many ways of sending retribution".
With my awaking came an over powering urge. Examine your conscience.
Remember that you can not go up against His power. I beg that you do
not harden your neck. The penalty will surely come. I tell you they
are praying. I was told this in the same dream. I assure you that I
do not believe in dreams but there was something so overwhelmingly
real and different about this. Please, are you sure that justice has
been given? Are you sure that you have treated them as you would
expect your own children to be treated? As you would stand for a
groupe of our own lads to be treated? THINK'
yours in His name,
Norma H. Hargrave.
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SB_L_1931.07.15_0464
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004235, Folder 6, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Norma H. Hargrave in Jacksonville, Florida, to Governor.
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Hargrave, Norma H.
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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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Inspired by a religious dream, Norma H. Hargrave begs Governor Miller in God's name not to persecute the Scottsboro Boys unless he is absolutely positive of their guilt. She describes her dream, and asks him to examine his conscience to make sure that justice has been given.
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1931-07-15
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United States--Florida--Jacksonville
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English
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Text
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063017
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Lake Charles, LA
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; state execution
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Lake Charles, La. April 13, 1929
Governor B. W. Miller,
Montgomery, Ala.,
Dear Gov. Miller;
The better class of people of the South would like to commend
Judge Hawkins for his trial of those negros. Of course we think he
should have had the execution in a few weeks. Such a henious crime by
negroes should be dealt with at once, or even if they were white boys.
The trouble with our courts in America, is- the sentence is delayed to
long, in England they have a speedy sentance.
What is out South coming to, if we have to listen to telegrams
from N.Y. criticizing a court that would condemn negros for such a
crime. I cannot conceive of any one trying to (stay the) interfere with
the trial. I would be ashamed of Alabama as my state if any other
sentance would have been given. I think the 14 year old boy should have been sentanced with the rest. If I were a lawyer, I would certainly
have to much pride to try and defend a negro in that crime.
I have never heard of so many crimes on white women, by negros.
Is it because we are to lenient with them, or is it this society in
N.Y. that they think will protect them?
Yours Truly,
Mr. L. Miller
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SB_L_1931.04.13_0325
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 13, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Mrs. L. Miller in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Ala.
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Miller, L., Mrs.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Hawkins, Judge A.E.
Description
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Mrs. L. Miller writes to Governer Miller that the problem with the courts is that they take too long to carry out a sentence. She believes that the Scottsboro Boys, or anyone accused of rape, should be punished, and that the Northern states should not interfere and are too lenient toward African Americans.
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1931-04-13
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United--States--Louisiana--Lake Charles
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English
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Letter
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This material is a government record from the records of the Governor's Office of the State of Alabama and are subject to the provisions of 36-12-40 Code of Alabama, Rights of citizens to inspect and copy public writings.
Southern States
Women
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Q
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Q0000063275; Q0000063276; Q0000063277
Address
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415 Bellville St., Evergreen, AL
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Margaret Sasser
Affiliation
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International Labor Defense
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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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.
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; International Labor Defense
Description
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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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Letter
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This material is a government record from the records of the Governor's Office of the State of Alabama and are subject to the provisions of 36-12-40 Code of Alabama, Rights of citizens to inspect and copy public writings.
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