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Title
Telegram from the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, New York, to Hon. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; American Civil Liberties Union (New York, N.Y.); Ward, Harry Frederick, 1873-1966; Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954; Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981
Description
The American Civil Liberties Union demands military protection for the Scottsboro defendants and their attorneys in the November 1933 Decatur trial before Judge Callahan. The telegram is signed by Harry F. Ward (first national chairman of the ACLU), Arthur Garfield Hays (ACLU general counsel), and Roger N. Baldwin (executive director of the ACLU). The ACLU was founded in 1920, eleven years before the Scottsboro trials began.
Creator
American Civil Liberties Union (New York, N.Y.)
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004240, Folder 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1933-11-22
Format
Telegram
Language
English
Coverage
United States--New York--New York