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Title
Letter from Socorro Rojo Internacional, Sección Salvadoreña, Comite Ejecutivo Nacional in San Salvador, to Gobernador Miller in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Socorro Rojo Internacional (San Salvador, El Salvador); International Red Aid; Communism
Description
Socorro Rojo Internacional, Sección Salvadoreña, Comite Ejecutivo Nacional—the Salvadoran branch of International Red Aid—demands the immediate release of the Scottsboro Boys, including Eugene Williams, who was sentenced to life imprisonment as a minor. This letter is part of a broad international campaign from Communist International to protest the Scottsboro sentencing at the 1933 Decatur trials, at which Judge Horton presided.
Creator
Socorro Rojo Internacional, Sección Salvadoreña, Comite Ejecutivo Nacional (San Salvador, El Salvador)
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004234, Folder 29, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1931-07-10
Format
Letter
Language
Spanish
Coverage
El Salvador--San Salvador
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Transcription
SOCORRO ROJO INTERNACIONAL
SECCION SALVADORENA
COMITE EJECUTIVO NACIONAL/
N.144-
S.R.I. San Salvador,
Julio lo. de 1931.
Scottsboro
Gobernador Miller
Montgomery
Alabama.U.S/ a/-
EL COMITE EJECUTIVO NACIONAL de la Seccion Salvadorena del SOCORRO ROJO INTER-
NACIONAL, P R O T E S T A de la manera mas energica por el acto salvaje, in-
humano y samguinario, que trata de perpetrarse en las personas de los nueve
jovenes negros trabajadores, a quienes se acusa de haber pretendido raptar a
dos mujeres blancas queviajaban en tren para Scottsboro, y que han sido conde-
nades a muerte todos,a excepcion del menor de todos que lo ha aido a prision
perpetua.
La sentencia habra de cumplirse segun lo fijado por el Tribunal el dia LO del
corriente; EL PROLETARIADO SALVADORENE militante en las filas del Socorro Rojo
Internacional, perfectamente solidarizado con el PROLETARIADO AMENRICANO, E X I
J E la LIBERTAD INMEDIATA, de los nueve jovenes negroe.
Por el Comite Ejecutivo Nacional
Ismael Hernandez
f. Ismael Hernandez
Srio. Gral.
SECCION SALVADORENA
COMITE EJECUTIVO NACIONAL/
N.144-
S.R.I. San Salvador,
Julio lo. de 1931.
Scottsboro
Gobernador Miller
Montgomery
Alabama.U.S/ a/-
EL COMITE EJECUTIVO NACIONAL de la Seccion Salvadorena del SOCORRO ROJO INTER-
NACIONAL, P R O T E S T A de la manera mas energica por el acto salvaje, in-
humano y samguinario, que trata de perpetrarse en las personas de los nueve
jovenes negros trabajadores, a quienes se acusa de haber pretendido raptar a
dos mujeres blancas queviajaban en tren para Scottsboro, y que han sido conde-
nades a muerte todos,a excepcion del menor de todos que lo ha aido a prision
perpetua.
La sentencia habra de cumplirse segun lo fijado por el Tribunal el dia LO del
corriente; EL PROLETARIADO SALVADORENE militante en las filas del Socorro Rojo
Internacional, perfectamente solidarizado con el PROLETARIADO AMENRICANO, E X I
J E la LIBERTAD INMEDIATA, de los nueve jovenes negroe.
Por el Comite Ejecutivo Nacional
Ismael Hernandez
f. Ismael Hernandez
Srio. Gral.
Translation
Socorro Rojo Internacional
Salvadoran Section
National Executive Committee N 144
San Salvador
July 1, 1931
Governor Miller
Montgomery
Alabama USA
The National Executive Committee of the Salvadoran branch of the Socorro Rojo Internacional protests in the strongest terms the savage, inhuman and bloody act that is being perpetrated upon the nine young Negro workers who have been accused of the attempted rape of two white women who were travelling by train to Scottsboro. These men were condemned to death, with the exception of the youngest, who received a life sentence.
According to the court, the sentence is to be carried out the 10th of this month. The Militant Salvadoran Proletariat, which counts itself among the ranks of the Socorro Rojo Internacional, in solidarity with the American Proletariat, demands the immediate release of the nine young Negroes.
For the National Executive Committee
f. Ismael Hernandez
Secretary General
Salvadoran Section
National Executive Committee N 144
San Salvador
July 1, 1931
Governor Miller
Montgomery
Alabama USA
The National Executive Committee of the Salvadoran branch of the Socorro Rojo Internacional protests in the strongest terms the savage, inhuman and bloody act that is being perpetrated upon the nine young Negro workers who have been accused of the attempted rape of two white women who were travelling by train to Scottsboro. These men were condemned to death, with the exception of the youngest, who received a life sentence.
According to the court, the sentence is to be carried out the 10th of this month. The Militant Salvadoran Proletariat, which counts itself among the ranks of the Socorro Rojo Internacional, in solidarity with the American Proletariat, demands the immediate release of the nine young Negroes.
For the National Executive Committee
f. Ismael Hernandez
Secretary General