Word: scottsboro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking on his own case and that of the Scottsboro defendants, Angelo Herndon will address a meeting of the National Student League at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room...
Herndon was convicted a few years ago for violating an obsolete statute of the post-Civil War period. His only crime was the possession of literature advocating the acquittal of the Scottsboro prisoners. He is now touring the country in an effort to raise funds for the appeal of his case before the Supreme Court. Fifteen thousand dollars bail has been provided for him by the International Labor Defense, pending his trial...
Orrick Johns, noted author, and Eugene Gordon, well-known negro journalist, will speak this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the Scottsboro and Herndon Cases...
...Scottsboro and Angelo Herdon cases are the principal subjects of speeches which Eugene Gordon, prominent Negro journalist, and Orrick Johns, poet and writer, will deliver Friday, December 7, at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House under the joint auspices of the Liberal Club and the National Student League...
Eugene Gordon, a Negro journalist, is on the editorial staff of the Boston Post. Besides his association with the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, he is a veteran of the World War. He has frequently written and spoken on the Scottsboro and other cases in which Negroes have experienced prejudice against their class...