Browse Items (143 total)

This international letter asks that the Scottsboro Boys be given a new trial, based on new facts which have come to light. Standing for "the interests of the working class not only in South Africa but throughout the world," the letter urges the…

In this telegram, Just Songeon, a Communist teacher and poet living in Annemasse, France, demands the liberation of the Scottsboro Boys.

Socorro Rojo Juventud Comunista Unión Sindical (International Red Aid Communist Youth Union), representing Colombian workers, protests the repression of the Scottsboro Boys and demands their freedom. This telegram arrived in the same month that the…

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…

Lell Smith believes the Scottsboro conviction is based on race prejudice, and argues that a person who is both working class and African American is treated more harshly by the court system. He requests that Governor Miller correct this mistake.

A young white girl, Carol R. Sloman is concerned about the Scottsboro Boys after reading of the case in the newspaper. She writes that she has had a happy life and has been given many opportunities, and that she has always tried to help others. She…

The Second Baptist Church decries the 1931 Scottsboro trial outcomes, deplores lynching, and demands the Scottsboro defendants' unconditional and immediate release. This is a form resolution that was sent by numerous groups and likely was originally…

Sent to "the Governor of Alabama," from the Scottsboro Defense Committee of Philadelpia, this flyer advertises a march from Philadelphia to Washington, to be held on April 26, 1933, in protest against the "legal lynching" of the nine defendants. It…

Schutz-Verband Deutscher Katastrophenopfer E.V. calls for the release of the Scottsboro defendants. The resolution describes the implications for human civilization if the Scottsboro Boys are killed instead of cared for and views the case from an…

The Russian Farmers and Workers Maxim Gorky Club attribute the March 1933 Haywood Patterson verdict to "rampant class hatred and wanton persecution of colored people by the courts of the ruling class of the USA." The resolution demands the immediate…