Flyer from Scottsboro Defense Committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to The Governor of Alabama, Executive Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama.

Flyer from Scottsboro Defense Committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to The Governor of Alabama, Executive Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama.

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.)

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.

Scottsboro Defense Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 17, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History

1933-04-26

Flyer

English

United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia