Letter from the Working Women's Club in New York Mills, Minnesota, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Title

Letter from the Working Women's Club in New York Mills, Minnesota, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.

Subject

Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Working Women's Club (New York Mills, Minnesota)

Description

The Working Women's Club of New York Mills, Minnesota, protests the Scottsboro Boys' imprisonment and demands their release.

Creator

Working Women's Club (Mills, Mn.)

Source

Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 10, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History

Date

1933-05-20

Format

Letter

Language

English

Coverage

United States--Minnesota--New York Mills

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Transcription

Ottertail
May 25 p.m. 1933
Minn.

Governor Miller
Montgomery
Alabama

New York Mills, Minnesota
May 20, 1933

Governor Miller,
Montgomery, Alabama.

We, the Working Women's Club
members of New York Mills,
Minnesota vigorously protest against
the imprisonment of the nine
negro boys of Scottsboro and we
demand that the boys be released
at once.

Katri Kukkonen, Organizer
Ida Kuivinen, Secretary