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Q
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Q0000063110
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Atlanta, GA
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Franky Abbott
Organization
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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)
Group
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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
Title
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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.
Creator
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Women's National Association for the Preservation of the White Race (Atlanta, Ga.)
Subject
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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
Coverage
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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English
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Text
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Telegram
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Q
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Q0000063289; Q0000063290; Q0000063291
Address
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; lynch
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PITTSBURGH PA 4 MAIL
DEC 13 530 PM EARLY
1933 FOR
CHRISTMAS
GOVERNOR MILLER,
STATE HOUSE,
MONTGOMERY,
ALABAMA.
Pittsburg, Pa.
Dec. 12 1933.
Governor Miller:-
After seeing such
as the enclosed article I am ashamed
to hold up my head and say that
Alabama is my native state. Is there
nothing that can be done to save the
fair name of Alabama. I only wish
you could hear what these people up
here are saying about our fair state.
Please Governor Miller do something
to save the name of out fair state
if you have to take those negroes out
and shoot them.
[Newspaper excerpt: THE PITTSBURGH PRESS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933
In the Deep South
[picture of Justice personified weeping, and walking along a road away from Alabama. She drags her sword behind her as she walks. A sign reads ìYOU ARE NOW LEAVING DECATUR, ALAî. In the background we see a small house and two African American figures watching Justice depart.]
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SB_L_1933.12.12_1101
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 25, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Title
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Letter from an unknown author in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Author unknown
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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The anonymous sender of this letter writes that Alabama is his or her native state, and hopes that Governor Miller will save its "fair name." The writer asks the Governor to do something, "if you have to take those negroes out and shoot them." The letter also includes a political cartoon that suggests "Justice" is leaving Decatur, Alabama.
Date
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1933-12-12
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United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
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English
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Text
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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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Southern States
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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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Individual Voices, Organization
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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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063275; Q0000063276; Q0000063277
Address
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415 Bellville St., Evergreen, AL
Mediator
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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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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
Title
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Letter from Mary J. Biggs in Evergreen, Alabama, to Govner B. M. Miller.
Creator
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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
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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.
Date
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1933-12-01
Coverage
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United States--Alabama--Evergreen
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English
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Text
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Letter
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Women
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Q
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Q0000063281; Q0000063282; Q0000063283
Address
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New Orleans, LA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Organization
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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
Group
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Organization
Transcription
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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
Title
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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.
Creator
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International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers in North America (New Orleans, LA)
Subject
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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
Description
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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.
Date
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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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Text
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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.
Labor unions
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Q
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Q0000063259
Address
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Hartford, CT
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Affiliation
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State Board of Education, State of Connecticut, Division of Field Service
Stance
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Not guilty; release
Group
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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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SB_L_1933.07.25_1033
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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.
Creator
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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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Text
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063197; Q0000063198; Q0000063199; Q0000063200; Q0000063201
Address
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Chicago, IL
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
Group
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Individual Voices
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19 Chicago Apr [undecipherable] 5pm 1933 Ill. Hon. Miller, Governor of the State of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala. 4/25/1933 To the Eminent Governor of the State of Alabama,- Governor Miller, of Montgomery, Ala. My dear Sir: Alabama is my home, I Have never known what a communist or a radical is and I don't care to know, but I am in- terested in my state, the integrity of my people and my God. I have always boasted of the fair play and the religious sincerity of my Alabama and her people. However, I guess I have come to love justice, the brotherhood of mankind and the Fatherhood of God more than these. To read of the unjust decision handed down in the Scottsboro Case some days ago, is to my un- derstanding, one of the outrages of the age in which we live. I think every white man should feel as I do, that there are higher ideals to be protected in our American institutions than our Superiority complex. It seems that our dear America is not only going off of the gold standard, but we have gone off the highest standards of law and judgment. This decision is not only damaging to Alabama, but to the jurisprudence of all our American institutions of govern- ment. I believe that through my race's injustices, God had confounded the wheels of our pursuing chariots, and that out in <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">of</span> this sea of divided waters we shall drown, as Pharioh of old. What shall we hope for as a nation? When we take the homes and home lands from other people, rob and enslave them, set up a double standard of law in our courts and when a negro es- capes, we say he is fleeing justice. What kind of justice? The people of our various states as the white races of the world, seem to be misunderstood as to what is just, which misunderstanding is fastly undoing our power and stability as a nation and a people. There is just one more item I wish to mention which I feel has much significance and that is the fugitive ques- tion. If the South continues its practices of the Scottsboro dicisions, States that consider the constitution of the United States to be a serious document, in obe- dience to the proper interpretation of the law will ultimately refuse to return even desperadoes who should justly be returned and exterminated. I most prayerfully Submit this to your consider- ation with a sympathetic heart for the good work you are trying to do. Sincerely- An Alabaman.
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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 an unknown author, to the Eminent Governor of the State 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
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"An Alabaman" writes that he or she has always loved Alabama, but loves justice more. He or she writes that the Scottsboro case has been an outrage, and that white men should realize there are greater ideals than protecting their superiority complex.
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1933-04-25
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Q0000063194
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Birmingham, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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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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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.
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The Workers of Birmingham, Alabama
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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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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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Q0000063127; Q0000063128
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1959 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; move trial to Birmingham
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F. Hatcher Atlanta, GA
1959 North Decatur Road A[PR] 18 530 AM 1933
Atlanta, Ga 2 STA. B.
Governor B. M. Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
1959 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, Ga.
April 17, 1933
Governor B.M. Miller
State Capitol
Montgomery, Alabama
My dear Governor Miller:
I have read with a great deal of interest the accounts of
the Scottsboro trial in Decatur. I am an Alabamian and greatly desire
that Alabama demand justice of every person brought before her courts.
I regret deeply the miscarriage of justice that has recently ocurred in
Decatur.
I want to urge you in the name of justice to move the succeeding
trials to Birmingham or to some city in which a fairer trial can take place.
It seems a shame to those of us who are citizens desiring
harmonious and appreciative race relations in the south that such events
as these happen and thus condemn us before the rest of the nation and the
world. It certainly seems that <u>Alabama</u> ought always to insist on justice
so that there would be no reason for the interference of outside groups!
The fact that this case has been and probably will be again taken to the
Supreme Court is within itself an indictment against the people of Alabama.
Judge Horton is to be highly commended for his efforts to
insure safety and fairness during the trials. Likewise your action in
furnishing the National Guard is to be appreciated. A further effort
toward justice would be to move the remaining trials to another place.
I assure you that I have every confidence that you will gladly
comply with every attempt to secure justice, and furthermore that the
citizens will support you in your actions.
Respectfully yours,
Flora Y. Hatcher
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Flora Y. Hatcher in Atlanta, Georgia, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Hatcher, Flora Y.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Horton, James Edwin, 1878-1973
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Flora Y. Hatcher, an Alabamian, writes that she is disappointed in the miscarriage of justice in Alabama and urges the governor to move the succeeding trials to Birmingham. She worries that the state has been condemned before the nation and praises Judge Horton's fairness and Governor Miller's usage of the National Guard.
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1933-04-17
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Q0000063066; Q0000063067; Q0000063068
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Marion, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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Uncertain; life imprisonment
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May 25, 1932. Mr. J. A. Hendrix Merion, Ala. Dear Mr. Hendrix: Your letter of May 23 received and appreciated. Am always glad to hear from you. I often think of my good friends in Perry County. Wish I could see more of them. The matters mentioned by you will be given careful study by me. Am always glad to have the benefit of your good counsel. With kindest personal regards, I am Yours sincerely, B. M. MILLER. Marion, Ala May 23, 1932 Gov. B.M. Miller Montgomery, Ala Scottsboro Dear Sir: I am your friend and well wisher. I think you have done remarkably well in your office so far. I have confidence that you will continue to do so. Never before has that office regarded such an amount of eval judgment and courage. Frequently I hear the expression "Old Miller is so bull headed". Well if Bull headed means courage, and I think it does, we want you to be bull headed. I think you are perfectly right in your stand on the school question. The schools ought to be hell down to the amount of taxes collected for shool purposes. But that cant be down as long as a group of "Educators" are allowed to have control of the state financial affairs. Now that <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">that</span> They are going out to put the matter before the people wich the verdict (unintelligible) of prejudicing the people against the administration and state government a campaign of Education against then ought to be started right away in order that they may not require the state and tax payers further. I hear quite a number of people, not <span style="text-decoration: underline;">school</span> people of course, speak very favorably of the suggested closing down of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">several</span> normal schools over the state claiming they are <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">not</span> a great unnecessary expense, not (unintelligible) at all. Here is a thing I feel would be a wise thing for you to do. Commute the death sentences of the Scottsboro negroes our to life imprisonment. A lot of ^ people are of the opinion that the sentence is rather harse and under the circumstances not justified. Of course there are people now who, if such action were taken, would attribute it to fear of some of the threats. That is why it would take more courage to commute then it would not to interfere. With best wishes, Your friend T.A. Hendrix No reply expected. (notes: shool -- school, wich -- which, harse -- harsh)
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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 J. A. Hendrix in Marion, Alabama, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Hendrix, J. A.
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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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J. A. Hendrix, a "friend and well wisher" of Governor Miller, congratulates the Governor on his performance in office so far and praises him for having great courage. He writes in detail that he agrees with the Governor on the "school" issue. He also asks the Governor to continue to have courage and to commute the Scottsboro Boys' sentence to life imprisonment, as the execution charges seem harsh and possibly not justified based on the evidence. Governor Miller's response to J. A. Hendrix thanks him for his "good counsel."
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1932-05-23
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United States--Alabama--Marion
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