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Q
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Q0000063142; Q0000063143
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871 W. 103 St., Los Angeles, CA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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871 W. 103 St., Los Angeles, Calif. LOS ANGELES AIR-MAIL U.S. Postage April (image of (image of 6 PM bi-wing plane) 1933 plane) 8¢ CALIF. SAVES TIME AIR MAIL Gov. B.M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Air-mail</span> Los Angeles, Calif. Apr. 14, 1932 Gov. B.M. Miller Montgomery, Ala. We the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">militant</span> workers both Negro and white <span style="text-decoration: underline;">demand</span> the immediate and unconditional release of the nine innocent Negro Scottsboro boys who your <span style="text-decoration: underline;">dirty degenerate</span> capitalist class has framed through its vicious lying!!! Perhaps you think there is no end to the patience of the hundred of millions of toiling masses. But there is!! We are fast awakening and will soon <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">through</span> throw your dirty lower than snake class into oblivion. Don't you dare allow the degenerate ruling class to murder these innocent Negro boys!!!!! Joseph Rodrigues, Worker (drawing of hammer and scythe) P.S. If you think that by murdering these innocent children you will breakup and frighten the growing mass movement of workers you are greatly mistaken but on the contrary you will greatly accentuate it. For every blow that your cur class strikes the working class your dirty cur class will get back 1000 fold you just remember we workers represent 97% of the people of the south!!!
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SB_L_1932.04.14_0879
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004238, Folder 14, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Joseph Rodriguez in Los Angeles, California, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rodriguez, Joseph
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Communist Party of the United States
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A "worker" demands the release of the Scottsboro Boys, whom the "dirty, degenerate, capitalist class" has framed. The letter warns of a workers' mass movement that will overtake the ruling class, as 97% of the people in the world are workers. The letter contains a drawing of a hammer and sickle.
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1932-04-14
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United States--California--Los Angeles
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Q
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Q0000063052; Q0000063053
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Cincinnati, OH
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; release
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CINCINNATI OHIO 3 (Stamp: Red
APR 16 Washington
7-PM 2¢ 1932
1932 United
States
Postage)
Governor of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
Scottsboro
Cincinnati, Ohio.
4/16/1932
Governor of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
Dear Sir:
The nine boys who were accused of
attacking two white girls, dressed in
men clothes ho boting, you know it is a
disgrace and also a fate. The women were
ho boting just as they were, and they were dressed in men cloyhes. Further more if the
women had of thought any thing of themselves
they wouldnt of been ho boting.
I read in the paper that they would be
electrocuted May 13, and I also read that
if they do something dreadful is going
to happen.
You southern white folks should have a
heart. Where do you expect to spend eternate?
you should be ashamed to hold those fellows
for those two onery women. The whole United
States is upset about those nine young men
and if they are electrocuted it will cause
severe trouble in Alabama. So please let the
boy go free because they havent did no more
than the women were doing.
Signed
W.P.
(notes: cloyhes -- clothes, wouldnt -- wouldn't, onery -- ornery)
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004236, Folder 8, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from W. P. in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Governor of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama.
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P., W.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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This letter describes that the two women involved in the Scottsboro case—Victoria Price and Ruby Bates—were dressed in men's clothing and "ho boting," or hoboing, on the train as the Scottsboro Boys were. W. P. believes that the boys did nothing more than the girls, and as such, should be let free.
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1932-04-16
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United States--Ohio--Cincinnati
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English
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Q
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Q0000063060; Q0000063061; Q0000063062; Q0000063063; Q0000063064; Q0000063065
Address
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Atlanta, GA
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Margaret Sasser
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Not guilty; retrial
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Individual Voices
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ATLANTA, GA (Stamp: Red
APR 29 Washington
230 PM 2¢ 1932
1932 United
STA.B. States
Postage)
Gov. B.M. Miller
of
Montgomery Ala.
if not received return Back to
70 1/2 one Waugh Blvd
Atlanta GA
Scottsboro
A!
Atlanta GA.
April 28-32.
Dear ser.
I am riten you just a
few line to let you
here from me I am a
mother of one of the
ScottsBaro Boys Viola
Montgomery I have prayed
to god and I have razed
money and I have did
Every thing I no to do
try to get a new trile
for me sun and it
seam like my sun
will have to go to that
chair any how now I
(notes: ser-- sir, riten -- writing, here -- hear, ScottsBaro -- Scottsboro,
razed -- raised, trile -- trial, sun -- son, seam -- seem)
2
will come to you wont
you please have mursey
on my Sun and the
rest of the Boy you
no the Boys ant Guilty
of nothing But hobo.
listen I am Negro Woman
But god made me for some
cause I dont no all I no
I am here and I love my
sun just like your
mother love you and I
will say this I []
from the love of sin
and I ant a friad to die
because I have died one time
I ant gonta die no more
3
so I will ask you plese
have mursey on our Boys
I wish I could see you
and talce to you corse I
no you wood not listen
at me But they are a day
or coming we are gonta
be sarrie and we dont
make Frind and get in
union we are all gonta
be destroid Bleve it or
not for they are to much
sin going on now days
well I will close from
one of the ScottsBoro
Boys motha Viola Montgomery
(notes: plese -- please, mursey -- mercy, talce -- talk, corse -- course, no -- know,
wood -- would, gonta -- gonna, sorrie -- sorry, frind -- friend, destroid --
destroyed, bleve -- believe, motha -- mother)
4
Olen Montgomery motha
70 1/2 me Waugh
Blvd
so atlanta Ga-
plese anser my letter
(notes: motha -- mother, plese -- please, anser -- answer)
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Viola Montgomery in Atlanta, Georgia, to Ser (Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama).
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Montgomery, Viola
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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Viola Montgomery—the mother of one of the Scottsboro Boys, Olen Montgomery—writes to Governor Miller to plead with him for a retrial for her son. She has prayed to God, raised money, and does not know what else to do in order to prevent her son's execution. She believes that the Scottsboro Boys are guilty of no more than being hobos, and asks the Governor to think about things from a mother's perspective.
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1932-04-28
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United States--Georgia--Atlanta
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English
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Q
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Q0000063066; Q0000063067; Q0000063068
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Marion, AL
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Margaret Sasser
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Uncertain; life imprisonment
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May 25, 1932. Mr. J. A. Hendrix Merion, Ala. Dear Mr. Hendrix: Your letter of May 23 received and appreciated. Am always glad to hear from you. I often think of my good friends in Perry County. Wish I could see more of them. The matters mentioned by you will be given careful study by me. Am always glad to have the benefit of your good counsel. With kindest personal regards, I am Yours sincerely, B. M. MILLER. Marion, Ala May 23, 1932 Gov. B.M. Miller Montgomery, Ala Scottsboro Dear Sir: I am your friend and well wisher. I think you have done remarkably well in your office so far. I have confidence that you will continue to do so. Never before has that office regarded such an amount of eval judgment and courage. Frequently I hear the expression "Old Miller is so bull headed". Well if Bull headed means courage, and I think it does, we want you to be bull headed. I think you are perfectly right in your stand on the school question. The schools ought to be hell down to the amount of taxes collected for shool purposes. But that cant be down as long as a group of "Educators" are allowed to have control of the state financial affairs. Now that <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">that</span> They are going out to put the matter before the people wich the verdict (unintelligible) of prejudicing the people against the administration and state government a campaign of Education against then ought to be started right away in order that they may not require the state and tax payers further. I hear quite a number of people, not <span style="text-decoration: underline;">school</span> people of course, speak very favorably of the suggested closing down of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">several</span> normal schools over the state claiming they are <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">not</span> a great unnecessary expense, not (unintelligible) at all. Here is a thing I feel would be a wise thing for you to do. Commute the death sentences of the Scottsboro negroes our to life imprisonment. A lot of ^ people are of the opinion that the sentence is rather harse and under the circumstances not justified. Of course there are people now who, if such action were taken, would attribute it to fear of some of the threats. That is why it would take more courage to commute then it would not to interfere. With best wishes, Your friend T.A. Hendrix No reply expected. (notes: shool -- school, wich -- which, harse -- harsh)
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SB_L_1932.05.23_0692
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from J. A. Hendrix in Marion, Alabama, to Gov. B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Hendrix, J. A.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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J. A. Hendrix, a "friend and well wisher" of Governor Miller, congratulates the Governor on his performance in office so far and praises him for having great courage. He writes in detail that he agrees with the Governor on the "school" issue. He also asks the Governor to continue to have courage and to commute the Scottsboro Boys' sentence to life imprisonment, as the execution charges seem harsh and possibly not justified based on the evidence. Governor Miller's response to J. A. Hendrix thanks him for his "good counsel."
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1932-05-23
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United States--Alabama--Marion
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English
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Q
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Q0000063070; Q0000063071
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Enid, OK
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Margaret Sasser
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Former state senator for the state of Oklahoma
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Uncertain; encourages review of convictions
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Individual Voices, Organization
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<u>Scottsboro</u> HARRY O. GLASSER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ENID, OKLAHOMA
May 25, 1932
His Excellency, the
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Sir:
Am enclosing herewith an editorial
clipped from the Manchester Guardian of Manchester,
England.
I sincerely trust that you will allow
the opportunity of a review of these convictions by
the United States Supreme Court.
Very respectfully,
Harry O. Glasser
HG:LV Harry O. Glasser
Former State Senator of
the State of Oklahoma
Still Time for Justice
The world has just been profoundly
shocked by a particularly senseless and
cruel example of political assassination ;
unless the Governor of Alabama intervenes
with a reprieve which will allow
a much-discussed case to be carried to
the Supreme Court of the United States
there is the gravest risk that all those
who care for lar, order, and the
decencies of civilised life will suffer
another horrid shock. Friday, June 24,
has been fixed for the execution
of seven negro youths, not one of
them older than twenty years, who were
tried at Scottsboro, Alabama, a year
ago on a charge of having raped two
white girls of bad reputation. In the
beginning nine negro boys were
arraigned on the same charge of rape,
after being arrested in the first place
on a charge of vagrancy arising out of
a fight with some white youths. The
charge of rape was added later when
two of the negros' travelling companions
were found to be white girls of
the looser sort. In the case of one
boy - aged fourteen - the jury could
not agree ; the remaining eight were
sentenced to death. One of them - a
child of thirteen when he was charged -
has been put back for another trial ;
the remaining seven, whose sentence
has been confirmed by the Supreme
Court of Alabama, are to die on
June 24. It is a tangled and evil tale
of negros, "poor whites," and racial
jealousy, complicated by this time with
Communist propaganda and disputes
over the conduct of such defense as
there has been. But the main point is
this ; that in no other civilised country
could such a trial have been held and
such sentences pronounced. Even a
month ago the "Times" New York
correspondent was writing :
Outside the South the case is very generally
regarded as an example of "legal lynching" ;
and even in the South there are many
who admit that the evidence against the
boys is as flimsy as it well could be, and
political grounds.
The truth is that if these seven boys
are done to death next month a
blacker chapter will have been written
in the history of the Southern States
than any which records the numerous
mob lynchings in those regions, for this
lamentable affair has every appearance
of mass lynching by legal process.
There is still time for the world of
restraint - not from the voice of mercy,
but from the voice of reason, justice,
and self-respect.
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SB_L_1932.05.25_0702
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 5, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Harry O. Glasser in Enid, Oklahoma, to His Excellency in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Glasser, Harry O.
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Manchester Guardian
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Harry O. Glasser, an attorney and former senator, hopes that Governor Miller will allow the Supreme Court of the United States to review the Scottsboro Boys' convictions and encloses a clipping from the Manchester [England] Guardian.
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1932-05-25
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United States--Oklahoma--Enid
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English
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Q
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Q0000063072; Q0000063073; Q0000063074
Address
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; takes no stance in regards to retrial or release
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The State - Governor
of Alabama.
<u>Montgomery</u> (Ala)
<u>U.S.A.</u>
G. Mannoury
Eendrachtstraat 27
AMSTERDAM (Z.)
[undecipherable] DE SPELLING
EN
TITIULATUUR
G. MANNOURY
Scottsboro AMSTERDAM, 4/6/1932
AMSTERDAM.
<u>TO THE JUDGES IN</u>
<u>THE SCOTTSBORO - WORLDCASE</u>
(High Court of Justice, Scottsboro, U.S.A.)
The analysis of mind and matter teaches us: <u>firstly</u>, that certain-
ty is but a form of probability, <u>secondly</u>, that crime, vengeance and
the idea of requital root in the same subconscient impulses, and
<u>thirdly</u>, that death means an event in other lifes.
It is to be concluded, that a sentence of death by way of requi-
tal: <u>may be</u> a judicial error,
<u>most probably</u> is a stimulus to criminality,
but <u>in any case</u> is a philosophical absurdity.
G. Mannoury
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SB_L_1932.06.04_0718
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from G. Mannoury in Amsterdam, to The Judges in the Scottsboro-World Case in Scottsboro, U.S.A.
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Mannoury, G.
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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Writing from Amsterdam, G. Mannoury argues that certainty is a matter of probability, such that to convict the Scottsboro Boys would be a "judicial error" and "philosophical absurdity."
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1932-06-04
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Holland--Amsterdam
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English
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Letter
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Q
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Q0000063075
Address
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Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
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Franky Abbott
Affiliation
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Communist Party
Stance
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N/A (asks governor to postpone execution)
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Individual Voices, International Locations, Organization
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Cabo Rojo, P.R.,
20 de junio de 1932.
Hon. Gobernador de Alabama,
Alabama,
Senor:
De acuerdo con la decision de las cortes seran ajus-
ticiados un grupo de jovenes negres dentro de podos dias.
Senor, en estos momentos en que el mundo entero se agita
y se precipita al borde de una revolucion social se impo-
ne un sereno y ecuanime proceder. No creemos que sea la
forma mas correcta y adecuada de llevar a la silla elec-
trica a esos jovenes negros para que de esa manera se
les castigue por un delito cometido. Creemos firmemente
que un delito no se lava ni se esruma su aureola de mal-
dad con otro delito como lo es el de matar a quien mata.
Mataron esos jovenes negros a alguien? No lo sabemos.
Pero cualquiera que haya sido su delito, no debe aparejar-
le la pena capital habida cuenta de que es un delito mayor
el que se comete cuando sun piedad y misericordia alguna
son llevados a la silla electrica.
En nombre de la santa libertad, en nombre de los
mas puros sentimientos de humanidad, en nombre toda esa
democracia de que se vanagloria el pueblo americano, tened
piedad y misericordia, senor, de esos jovenes negros. Or-
denad, senor, que se posponga la ejeccion de ellos para
que vuestra conciencia no os acuse de un mal peor que el
que esas pobres victimas hayan causado a la sociedad.
Nosotros protestamos energicamente contra ese acto
cruel de matar en nombre de la justicia. Eso no es humano,
senor. Eso es retroceder a la barbarie. Eso es aumentar
el caos social en que se desenvuelve este mundo. Oid nue-
tra suplica no por el bien que se pueda hacer a esos des-
graciados, sino por la tranquilidad vuestra.
Por el grupo comunista,
Miguel Ortega
Jinto Berenguer
Translation
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Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
June 20, 1932
Honorable Governor of Alabama
Alabama
Sir:
In accordance with the decision of the courts, a group of young, Negro men will be brought to justice in a few days. Sir, in these times when the entire world is agitated and on the verge of a social revolution, this course of action is being taken coldly and without feeling. We do not believe it is correct to send these young men to the electric chair for the crime committed. We do not believe their alleged crime to be as serious as the taking of another human life.
In the name of holy liberty, in the name of the purest human sentiments, in the name of the democracy in which the American people take pride, take pity upon and have mercy with these young Negroes, sir. Postpone their execution so that your conscience does not accuse you, sir, of a crime worse than that which these poor victims may have caused society.
We vigorously protest this cruel act of execution in the name of justice. This action is not human, sir. It is a return to barbarism. It will increase the chaos into which the world is now descending. Hear our plea, not for the good it may do for these unfortunates, but rather for the sake of your own peace.
For the communist group,
Miguel Ortega
Justo Berenguer
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SB_L_1932.06.20_0720
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 7, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Miguel Ortega and Justo Berenguer in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, to Hon. Gobernardor de Alabama, Alabama.
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Ortega, Miguel and Justo Berenguer
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Communism in Puerto Rico
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Two Puerto Rican communists plead with the Governor to postpone the execution of the Scottsboro Boys. The letter makes the case for postponement by advocating against the death penalty in all contexts and asks the Governor to show mercy for his own "peace of mind."
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1932-06-20
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Puerto Rico--Cabo Rojo
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Spanish
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Q
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Q0000063076
Address
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Glenwood, IA
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
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Guilty; lynch
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Individual Voices
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Glenwood Ia
Nov, 14 1932
Gov. of Alabama
Scottsboro
Your Excellency;
I wish to reassure you, many
people of Iowa favor the hanging of the
seven negros recently unfairly favored with
an order of retrial by the iniquitous Supreme Court.
Many here hope the State of Alabama will
continue its ethical fight for the purity of the
white race, segregation, and white race supremacy
so nobly and honorably maintained.
One cannot expect much from a court so
shallow that it declared and still maintains such
forced post war late legislation as the 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments constitutional, in spite of
open Congressional coercion of other days.
Yours respectfully
Frederick Kassen
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SB_L_1932.11.14_0735
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 12, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Forderick Kassen in Glenwood, Iowa, to Your Excellency.
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Kassen, Forderick
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944
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Forderick Kassen assures Governor Miller that people in Iowa, and people outside of the Southeast in general, want to see the Scottsboro Boys hanged, though the United States Supreme Court has ordered a retrial. He hopes that Alabama will continue its "ethical fight for the purity of the white race, segregation, and white race supremacy." He does not respect a court that upholds "hate legislation" like the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
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1932-11-14
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United States--Iowa--Glenwood
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English
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Q
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Q0000063085; Q0000063086; Q0000063087
Address
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1731 S Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Mediator
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Individual Voices
Transcription
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WASHINGTON
6PM
DC 1933
Honourable B. M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Montgomery, Alabama.
L. W. G.
RECEIVED
MAR 24 MONTGOMERY,
(SPEC. DEL.)
ALA.
1731 S Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.,
21st. Match, 1933.
The Honourable B. M. Miller,
Governor of Alabama,
Executive Building,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Excellency:
I most humbly beg you in the name of the
most high, our Lord and Jesus Christ, to give this letter your
most kind consideration in behalf of the Colored Scottsbury boys,
whose fate hang in the balance of divine justice.
I do not know them, but as one of the human
family and of the Christian Army, I have tried in my small way to
try and comfort them, since I have learned of their most sorrowful
fate, and beg of you in the same name of the Lord to consider their fate.
It is in the spirit of christian love that I humbly address you and
would feel the same and pray the same for any human being whose
guilt was questioned by so large a majority of citizens and even
international forces.
I have fasted and prayed that the Eternal
and almighty father would touch your heart to grant this petition
in his holy name, to release those poor boys back to their poor
lonely mothers, who probably know no joy in this life other than
being mothers. I have fasted three days and nights, not food nor
water, praying night and day, trusting in God's good mercy, that
you will favor our request. And I believe you will do the will
of God, and bring down blessings upon yourself and your whole
State as well, and all that is dear to you. Your future home in
glory will be justice. Oh God grant, and all that has anything
to do with this case, from the greatest to the smallest, will be
happy that they will not have innocent blood upon them.
Just your word and the word of your pen
Excellency, will merit justice to your State and freedom will
be the jewels in your heavenly robe.
Sincerely in Christ,
Lillian W. McGroeken
Scottsboro
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SB_L_1933.03.21_0766
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 20, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Lillian W. Crocker, to The Honourable B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
Creator
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Crocker, Lillian W.
Subject
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Christianity
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In this religious letter, Lillian W. Crocker asks that the Governor give this case his consideration and attention. She writes that as "one of the human family and the Christian Army" she has fasted and prayed for the Scottsboro Boys' comfort. She hopes that her petition will touch his heart.
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1933-03-21
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United States--District of Columbia--Washington
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English
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Q
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Q0000063088
Address
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1716 Rittenhouse Street, Philadelphia, PA
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Margaret Sasser
Stance
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Not guilty; release
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Individual Voices
Transcription
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Dear Mr. Governor
If Ruby Bates - one of the two women in the Scottsboro
case - made this statement "Those policemen made me tell
a lie. Those Negros did not touch me. I know it was
wrong to let those negros be sentenced to die on account
of me". -- I am sure you will wish to release the nine
Scottsboro boys and give them a safe conduct to their homes.
At this distance it is hard to know the truth about this
case but we all look to you to do what is right.
Sincerely
Leopold Stokowski
Governor B. M. Miller
Montgomery, Alabama
33 * 3 * 22
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI 1716 RITTENHOUSE STREET PHILADELPHIA PA.
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SB_L_1933.03.22_0768
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Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004237, Folder 20, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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Letter from Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Stokowski, Leopold
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Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Bates, Ruby, -1976
Description
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Quoting Ruby Bates' confession that the Scottsboro Boys never accosted her, Leopold Stokowski asks the Governor to release the Scottsboro Boys and give them a safe conduct home. He hopes the Governor will use his best judgment, as he admits he finds it hard to know what is true in this case.
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1933-03-22
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United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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English
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Letter
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