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Title
Telegram from workers in a mass meeting in Harlem in New York, New York, 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; Williams, Eugene, b. 1917; Wright, Leroy, 1918-1959;
Description
Signed by "Committee of Five" workers from Harlem, this telegram requests protection for Eugene Williams and Roy Wright from "lynch mobs gathering near Decatur, Alabama" before their June 22 trial in Juvenile Court, as well as the immediate release of all the Scottsboro defendants.
Creator
Harlem workers
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 11, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1933-06-01
Format
Telegram
Language
English
Coverage
United States--New York--New York