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Title
Telegram from the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, 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; Universal Negro Improvement Association
Description
Signed by "Joseph Walcott," this telegram from the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, protests the slated execution of the Scottsboro Boys. This group was a Canadian branch of Marcus Garvey's UNIA, the black nationalist fraternal organization founded in 1914 that promoted a shared international black pride and black economic self-sufficiency.
Creator
Universal Negro Improvement Association (Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004236, Folder 22, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1932-05-09
Format
Telegram
Language
English
Coverage
Canada--Nova Scotia--Glace Bay