Word: scottsboro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WORLEY Scottsboro...
...Communist Party and the party-line Civil Rights Congress went to their rescue with rallies, demonstrations and screaming Daily Worker headlines calling it "a northern Scottsboro case." Non-Communist liberal groups joined in, and the case was carried to New Jersey's highest court...
Arrested in Brooklyn, N.Y., for annoying a woman in a subway, one Willie Roberson was discovered to be one of the Scottsboro boys. He was convicted of disorderly conduct, given 90 days in the workhouse...
Married. Lieut. John Rockefeller Prentice, 38, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller; and Abbie Blanche Cantrill. 29, receptionist in the Chicago law office which Prentice left to join the Army; in Scottsboro...
Died. Walter H. Pollak, 53, lawyer who twice obtained review of the Scottsboro trials by the U. S. Supreme Court; of pneumonia; in Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan...