Word: scottsboro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medicine), Rachelle S. Yarros (Illinois College of Medicine), Edith P. Mols (Florida State College for Women), Caroline Croasdale (New York State College for Teachers), Lillian Welsh (Goucher) and Curator Myrtelle M. Canavan of Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum.-ED. Sweeping Statement Sirs: Your otherwise excellent account of the Scottsboro Case in your issue for April 17 contains one paragraph to which I should like to take exception. It follows...
This statement is entirely too sweeping. Many thousands of Southerners are shocked at the Scottsboro verdict. They feel that it was contrary to the evidence. I have read many editorials on the case in Southern newspapers, and I have yet to find one in a paper published outside of Alabama which approved the verdict...
...Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase in lynching if the Lowell ruling became permanent. Only by force of arms could the South be compelled to put Negroes on its juries. The Scottsboro case in Alabama hinged on the same issue after trial and conviction. Judge Lowell had intensified the racial issue by raising it before trial. Southern resentment against Judge Lowell quickly boiled to a climax in the House of Representatives. Two days after the Boston ruling Virginia's Representative Howard Smith...
...sufficient crowd for more serious business is not in attendance, that the CRIMSON decried (even though in muffled tones) the recent attempt of the Liberal Club to condemn Hitler's "All Fools" German Regime, that the CRIMSON, with characteristic puerility attempted to disparage the recent protest meeting in the Scottsboro and Mooney cases by such a distortion of the events of the meeting, that, unless one read the article closely, one would gather from the biased and doltish headlines "Arguments Break Out at Meeting of Liberals," that the main event of the meeting was the occurrence of friction within...
There were two speakers at the meeting. The first, W. R. Taylor '36, presented a detailed account of the trial of the nine Scottsboro boys accused of rape, and pointed out the miscarriage of justice due to racial prejudice. Petitions for their immediate and unconditional pardon were passed to the listeners...