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Q0000063028; Q0000063029; Q0000063030
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Boston, MA
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Boston, Mass.
June 4, 1931
Governor G.W. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama
Your honor Sir,
As a lunden-bearer of my
God and fellow man, I take
this chance to ask your, OK: White
Supremacy, how much blood
have we to "pay" in their name?
We have tilled the soil, build
the roads, cooked for and nursed
you from generation to generation.
now nine descendants of such
unappreciated laborers are
facing an electric mob June
10th just because some good-
for-nothing white women said
they were raped. Such <u>lies</u> have
carried a many poor negro to
death, but the white man in
2
this, my country America must
and shall pay the price. Why
cannot you see that the word
of God and the laws of nature
never change?
If these innocent lads are
murded, and you do not do
what you can to prevent it,
you are the <u>murderer</u>.
Instead of telling people
what you think of your "old
Black Mammy", show-Black
that
mammy's children ^ you would
protect them <u>even</u> as much
as you would would your "Pet
Dog".
The eyes of heaven and hell
are upon you. I remember that
these same eyes were upon.
3
Louis XIV of France.
Be careful; for when you
sign papers to electricute those
negro boys, you might be signing
papers to electricute some of
you own kinds folks.
If you have read this Sir,
Thank you. If not, I thank
you just the same.
(note: elctricute - electrocute)
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 39, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter in Boston, Massachusetts, to Governor B. M. Miller 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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This unsigned letter to Governor Miller asks how much blood African Americans have to pay in the name of white supremacy. After all the unappreciated labor—of cooking, tilling soil, building roads—this anonymous writer begs that the Governor show, not just say, that he would protect his "old black mammy" and her children. The writer states that allowing the Scottsboro Boys to be electrocuted would make the Governor a murderer.
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1931-06-04
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Q0000063026
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Sumner, WA
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Scottsboro Sumner Washington.
June 26th, 1931.
Dear Governor-;
From what I understand vicious race prejudice convicted,
those negro boys at Scotsboro. As a man born in the
South myself. I am expecting to see this travisty on
justice corrected by you.
Belonging to the Working Class in itself, is
a sufficient handicap in an American Court, let alone
being black in color.
I am expecting you to have sufficient
courage to correct this wrong, and save the name of
the State of Alabama from the stain of being bloodthirsty
to a socalled inferior race.
Very respectfully,
Lell Smith
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Lell Smith believes the Scottsboro conviction is based on race prejudice, and argues that a person who is both working class and African American is treated more harshly by the court system. He requests that Governor Miller correct this mistake.
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1931-06-26
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Q0000063033
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Berkeley, CA
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Berkeley, Calif.,
July 20, 1931.
To The Honorable Governor,
Souvereign State Of Alabama.
Scottsboro
Dear Sir:
I was a spectator, last New Year's Day, at Rose Bowl, Pas-
adena, when the 'Crimson Tide' turned back our great Pacific Coast
football team, known as the Cougars. It is difficult for me to
realize that such a great aggregation of young athletes represents
a state that would condem to <u>DEATH</u>, eight colored men, on framed-up
evidence---because they were on a freight train when two white women
were frightened, or an assault attempted.
For God's sake, come back to the United States and assist
the rest of the people in it to forget the lynchings and burning of
colored men by Southern mobx, rather than bring further contempt
upon your state, with legal murders, on such flimsy charges.
P.W. Powles
Percy W. Powles.
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Letter from Percy W. Powles in Berkeley, California, to The Honorable Governor in Alabama.
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Powles, Percy W.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Alabama Crimson Tide (Football team)
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Percy W. Powles condemns the "framed-up evidence," convicting the Scottsboro Boys to death. He continues that he cannot believe such great athletes as the Crimson Tide, whom he saw play a game against the Cougars, represent an unjust state. He asks that Governor Miller stop legal lynchings and murders that bring contempt upon the state.
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Q
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Q0000063052; Q0000063053
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Cincinnati, OH
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Margaret Sasser
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CINCINNATI OHIO 3 (Stamp: Red
APR 16 Washington
7-PM 2¢ 1932
1932 United
States
Postage)
Governor of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
Scottsboro
Cincinnati, Ohio.
4/16/1932
Governor of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
Dear Sir:
The nine boys who were accused of
attacking two white girls, dressed in
men clothes ho boting, you know it is a
disgrace and also a fate. The women were
ho boting just as they were, and they were dressed in men cloyhes. Further more if the
women had of thought any thing of themselves
they wouldnt of been ho boting.
I read in the paper that they would be
electrocuted May 13, and I also read that
if they do something dreadful is going
to happen.
You southern white folks should have a
heart. Where do you expect to spend eternate?
you should be ashamed to hold those fellows
for those two onery women. The whole United
States is upset about those nine young men
and if they are electrocuted it will cause
severe trouble in Alabama. So please let the
boy go free because they havent did no more
than the women were doing.
Signed
W.P.
(notes: cloyhes -- clothes, wouldnt -- wouldn't, onery -- ornery)
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SB_L_1932.04.16_0625
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004236, Folder 8, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from W. P. in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Governor of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama.
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P., W.
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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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This letter describes that the two women involved in the Scottsboro case—Victoria Price and Ruby Bates—were dressed in men's clothing and "ho boting," or hoboing, on the train as the Scottsboro Boys were. W. P. believes that the boys did nothing more than the girls, and as such, should be let free.
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1932-04-16
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Q
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Q0000063072; Q0000063073; Q0000063074
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Margaret Sasser
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The State - Governor
of Alabama.
<u>Montgomery</u> (Ala)
<u>U.S.A.</u>
G. Mannoury
Eendrachtstraat 27
AMSTERDAM (Z.)
[undecipherable] DE SPELLING
EN
TITIULATUUR
G. MANNOURY
Scottsboro AMSTERDAM, 4/6/1932
AMSTERDAM.
<u>TO THE JUDGES IN</u>
<u>THE SCOTTSBORO - WORLDCASE</u>
(High Court of Justice, Scottsboro, U.S.A.)
The analysis of mind and matter teaches us: <u>firstly</u>, that certain-
ty is but a form of probability, <u>secondly</u>, that crime, vengeance and
the idea of requital root in the same subconscient impulses, and
<u>thirdly</u>, that death means an event in other lifes.
It is to be concluded, that a sentence of death by way of requi-
tal: <u>may be</u> a judicial error,
<u>most probably</u> is a stimulus to criminality,
but <u>in any case</u> is a philosophical absurdity.
G. Mannoury
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from G. Mannoury in Amsterdam, to The Judges in the Scottsboro-World Case in Scottsboro, U.S.A.
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Mannoury, G.
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Writing from Amsterdam, G. Mannoury argues that certainty is a matter of probability, such that to convict the Scottsboro Boys would be a "judicial error" and "philosophical absurdity."
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1932-06-04
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Q
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Q0000063088
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1716 Rittenhouse Street, Philadelphia, PA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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Dear Mr. Governor
If Ruby Bates - one of the two women in the Scottsboro
case - made this statement "Those policemen made me tell
a lie. Those Negros did not touch me. I know it was
wrong to let those negros be sentenced to die on account
of me". -- I am sure you will wish to release the nine
Scottsboro boys and give them a safe conduct to their homes.
At this distance it is hard to know the truth about this
case but we all look to you to do what is right.
Sincerely
Leopold Stokowski
Governor B. M. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama
33 * 3 * 22
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI 1716 RITTENHOUSE STREET PHILADELPHIA PA.
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Letter from Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Stokowski, Leopold
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Bates, Ruby, -1976
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Quoting Ruby Bates' confession that the Scottsboro Boys never accosted her, Leopold Stokowski asks the Governor to release the Scottsboro Boys and give them a safe conduct home. He hopes the Governor will use his best judgment, as he admits he finds it hard to know what is true in this case.
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1933-03-22
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Q
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Q0000063170; Q0000063171; Q0000063172
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2461 16th Street, Denver, CO
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; move trial to Birmingham
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A. E. Merriam
2461 16th Street
Denver, Colorado
DENVER
1 APR 12
6 PM
1933
COLO.
Governor B. M. Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama.
[Stamp in the lower left corner depicts a group of men sitting behind bars, whilst two arms branded with the initials ILD pry those bars apart. The inscription reads ëSAVE THE SCOTTSBORO BOYSí.]
2461 16th Street,
Denver, Colorado,
April 12, 1933.
Governor B. M. Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama,
Dear Sir:
My purpose in writing you, Governor Miller, is to
call your attention to the undeserved hatred of the Negro
People South of Mason and Dixon's line, by the white people
in the same locality.
Hated, because the white people of the south, have,
for more than three hundred years enslaved them, persecuted
them, tortured them, and brutally robbed them of every humane
right, financially, morally, politically and lawfully, lynched
them without redress, on the popular southern frame-up charge
of raping a white woman or girl. While at the same time, as
the vast number of mulattos in the South prove, the white
men of the South think nothing of raping the wives, mothers
and daughters of Negro Parentage. If they oppose the white
man's vicious animalism they are brutally murdered without
redress.
The Scottsboro Case, wherein nine innocent Negro
Boys have been framed on the charge of raping a white pros-
titute, whom these Negro boys never met until they faced her
in the Court, has attracted the attention of the whole world
to the criminal attitude of Alabama against the Negro People.
2--
You could have ordered the removal of the frame up
case of these nine innocent Negros to be tried in Birmingham,
where the K.K.K. (favorite sons of the white man of the South.)
does not rule so prominently as in Decator.
This you have not, as yet, done, Governor Miller.
Hence, if one of these innocent Negro Boys are con-
victed on the perjured testimony of Victoria Price, or are
lynched by the white mobs, who want to kill them, whether inno-
cent or guilty, because they are Negros and they hate them,
the whole world will spit on you, ---will hold you guilty of
conspiracy to take the lives of the <u>nine innocent Negro Boys</u>.
Respectfully,
A.E. Merriam
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Letter from A. E. Merriam in Denver, Colorado, to Governor B. M. Miller 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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A. E. Merriam writes to Governor Miller that his purpose is to bring to light the undeserved hatred of "Negro People South of the Mason and Dixon's line," and details some of the atrocities committed against African Americans in the South since slavery. He writes that the governor should have ordered the Scottsboro Boys' trial to be moved to Birmingham instead of Decatur, and that if he continues to do nothing to keep them from the death sentence, he will be guilty of conspiracy to kill the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-04-12
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Q0000063132; Q0000063133
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Prince Bay, Staten Island, NY
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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Individual Voices
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S.O. Rusby Staten Island Prince Bay APR 19 12 M 1933 S. I. N. Y. N. Y. Gov. B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Alabama. Prince Bay, S. I. N. Y. Apr. 18th, 1933 To His Excellency, Gov BM Miller, Montgomery Ala Dear Sir: You are receiving many letters concerning the convicted Negro and the eight still to be tried in the Scottsboro case, I realize that the Negro problem is one that is troubling both North and South and i am inclined to think when Icall to mind all the trouble that has been caused by bringing slavss to America, that it would have been better had we left them in Africa and have gone <span style="text-decoration: underline;">there</span> to elevate them. But we <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> did the deed, and we all must work together to solve the problem of helping to make good citizens of these people, whom we stole fromtheir homes I am asking in nine White boys had attacked two Colored girls would there have been the same efforts made to secure conviction and pun- ishment. Of course there should have been. North We at the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">tNotrth</span> are not guiltless in the matter of prejudice, and worse matters seem to be getting^rather than better. But all who desire fair play should be interested in seeing that that justice is d one to both Black and White. Excuse my taking your valuable time, but I do ask that so far as you have power in this matter, you will se that no injustice is done the boys. Respectfully yours, S. O. Rusby
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SB_L_1933.04.18_0864
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from S. O. Rusby in Staten Island, New York, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rusby, S. O.
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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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S. O. Rusby writes that it may have been better if "we had left them in Africa and have gone there to elevate them." He adds that it is everyone's responsibility "to make good citizens of these people." He also writes that the North is not guiltless of race issues and that justice should be done for white and black. He asks no injustice be done to the Scottsboro Boys.
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1933-04-18
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United States--New York--Staten Island
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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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Q
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Q0000063221; Q0000063222
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134 W 147th St., Harvey, IL
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Individual Voices
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After five days return to <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Dixie Highway Lunch</span> L.H. Goodshaw Harvey Ill. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">225 Western Ave.</span> 134.W. 147 st. May 15 11 am 1933 <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Blue Island, Ill.</span> Harvey Ill B. M. Miller Montgomery Ala. Harvey Ill. May 15 193 Gov .B.M.Miller. Montgomery Ala. Coming to my attention is the case of Haywood Patterson in the Jefferson county Jail, Is your system of handling prisoners so inefecent you cannot keep them from killing each other? Or is it the intention to have some tough to do the dirty job that you dare not do? These Scottsboro boys are Innocent and you knew it WHY do you not free them?? Is it because of their color? Does not the Consitution give these boys the same rights as other citizens? Read Amendment XIV Section I. As a citezen and voter with favors to none but justice to all, free these boys at once. Respectfully Yours L.H.Goodshaw. 134.W.147th ST/ Harvey Ill.
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SB_L_1933.05.15_0958
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from L. H. Goodshaw in Harvey, Illinois, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Goodshaw, L. H.
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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
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L. H. Goodshaw questions the handling of the Scottsboro Boys and other prisoners in the Alabama jail system. He wonders why the guards do not do a better job of protecting them, and if the guards order other inmates to accost them. He reminds the Governor of Amendment XIV--the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution--and asks him to release the boys.
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1933-05-15
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United States--Illinois--Harvey
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English
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Text
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063233; Q0000063234
Address
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12 Hinckley St., Northampton, MA
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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N/A; boycotts Alabama
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Individual Voices
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Y. P. A. 3 CHICAGO CENTURY OF PROGRESS
3308 Crystal St. MAY 27 6 PM 1933 WORLD'S FAIR JUNE I Chicago, Illinois ILL. CHICAGO NOV I
1933
Governor H. B. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama.
file*
12 Hinckley St.,
Northampton, Mass.,
May 23, 1933
His Excellency the Governor
State of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Sir:
Recently we were invited by friends sojourning in
your capital city to visit them in their home during our
vacation.
However we have canceled this visit since reading
that your roads were built by the sweat and blood of the chain
gang for which the romantic South is so notorious.
We cannot bring ourselves to spend money in a state
governed by barbarians, despite their self-assumed titles of
"Southern gentlemen", and have so advised our hospitable friends.
If you read Harper's Monthly, you would profit, and
perhaps even blush at the accusation that no white man could
let go unchallenged were it not the truth.
Until you change your moral code in this respect, we
shall continue to spend our vacations among people at least
partially human, and shall also advise our friends to spend their
vacations in the North.
Very Truly Yours,
Chas. E. Lobreck
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SB_L_1933.05.23_0971
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 10, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Chas. E. Lotreck in Northampton, Massachusetts, to His Excellency the Governor in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Lotreck, Chas. E.
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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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Chas. E. Lotreck writes that he had a trip planned to visit his friends in Montgomery, but will be cancelling it since he has learned that the roads were built by chain gangs. He continues that he will not give any money to a state so barbarous.
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1933-05-23
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United States--Massachusetts--Northampton
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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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