Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of these three phobias against the colored race, the Semites, and the Communists, it is unreasonable to expect anything good to come out of Alabama. Barring the very improbable Constitutional change necessary to remove the administration of capital crimes from local areas to Federal control, the Scottsboro boys can at the most hope for a commutation of sentence from electrocution of sentence from electrocution to life imprisonment. Until the prejudices permeating Southern thought are liquidated it will continue to be obvious that the eye-bandage Justice wears to insure an impartial weighing of the scales is made of transparent...
...after outlawing them from Federal buildings; sent it to conference. ½ Passed a bill authorizing the President to put jobless men to work in the woods; sent it to the House (see above). ¶ Received from the Judiciary Committee a favorable (11-to-3) report on a bill by Alabama's Black establishing a five-day, 30-hour week for industry engaged in interstate commerce...
...County, Ala. Eight of the Negroes were condemned to death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy" to Decatur in neighboring, rural Morgan County, began last week...
First defendant called was Haywood Patterson. Black, bewildered, a horseshoe in his pocket, he sprawled torpidly on a bench behind his counsel. But he was not tried. On trial were the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and Alabama's "selective jury system...
Lily White Justice. Counsel Leibowitz first moved that the indictments against his clients be quashed on the grounds that, by banning Negroes from the Jackson County jury roll, the State of Alabama had denied the defendants their constitutional rights at the original trial. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, whose father wrote the Alabama Supreme Court decision sustaining the prior verdict, put the burden of proof on the defense. What Counsel Leibowitz had to prove, every Southerner knows to be true: Negroes simply are not allowed on juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque...