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Title
Letter from Frank A. Spaulding in Springfield, Illinois, to Governor of Alabama, Executive Office in Montgomery, Ala.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
Description
Though he had never traveled South, a 24-year-old African American in Illinois explains to Governor Miller that he understands how to reason with the "Southern point of view." He offers to travel to Alabama to argue for the Scottsboro Boys' sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.
Creator
Spaulding, Frank A.
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 14, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1931-04-11
Format
Letter
Language
English
Coverage
United States--Illinois--Springfield
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Transcription
13 1931
MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Spec. Del
eturn {Frank H. Spaulding
5 {1110 E. Reynolds St.
Days {Springfield, Ill.
SPRINGFIELD
APRIL
9 PM
ILL. 1931 FEE CLAIMED OFF
Governor of Alabama OF FIRST ADDRESS
Executive Office
Montgomery,
Ala.
Important
Frank H. Spaulding
1110 E. Reynolds St.
Springfield, Ill.
April 11, 1931.
Governor of Alabama
Executive Office
Dear Sir;
In the behalf of good judgement, for your
State and the whole United States, I ask you
to consider the commutative of the sentences of
the eight Negroes, confered at Scottville the 9th.
While their trial and conviction, without
mob violence, is a great plume in the cap of
Alabama towards justice and modern progress,
the victory would be complete with a more jus-
tiful sentence.
I'm a Northern Negro, 24 yrs of age. Although never
having been over the line, I've always been able to
see and reason with the Southern point of view.
And to prove that all the above is'nt so much thrash,
because I'm in the security of Illinois, I volunteer, with
expenses paid, and the proper authority, even at the risk
violence towards myself, to come to Alabama and plead
their case for life-imprisonment, if possible.
yours truly,
Frank H. Spaulding
MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Spec. Del
eturn {Frank H. Spaulding
5 {1110 E. Reynolds St.
Days {Springfield, Ill.
SPRINGFIELD
APRIL
9 PM
ILL. 1931 FEE CLAIMED OFF
Governor of Alabama OF FIRST ADDRESS
Executive Office
Montgomery,
Ala.
Important
Frank H. Spaulding
1110 E. Reynolds St.
Springfield, Ill.
April 11, 1931.
Governor of Alabama
Executive Office
Dear Sir;
In the behalf of good judgement, for your
State and the whole United States, I ask you
to consider the commutative of the sentences of
the eight Negroes, confered at Scottville the 9th.
While their trial and conviction, without
mob violence, is a great plume in the cap of
Alabama towards justice and modern progress,
the victory would be complete with a more jus-
tiful sentence.
I'm a Northern Negro, 24 yrs of age. Although never
having been over the line, I've always been able to
see and reason with the Southern point of view.
And to prove that all the above is'nt so much thrash,
because I'm in the security of Illinois, I volunteer, with
expenses paid, and the proper authority, even at the risk
violence towards myself, to come to Alabama and plead
their case for life-imprisonment, if possible.
yours truly,
Frank H. Spaulding