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Sirs: In your issue of April 15 you make this astounding statement with respect to the Supreme Court's second Scottsboro decision: "Alabamans and the Press of the entire South took that decision with a stunned and apprehensive silence. . . ." So far from receiving the recent findings with "a stunned and apprehensive silence," editors throughout the South commented immediately, and most of those whose comments I saw not only thought the Supreme Court entirely justified in its action, but expressed gratification that the conviction had been set aside...
...once more taken official cognizance of the fact that in the South the Negro does not get all the rights of citizenship the 14th Amendment of the Constitution was intended to give him. In reviewing the death sentence passed on Negro Clarence Norris, one of Alabama's nine "Scottsboro boys," the Supreme Court for the second time reversed the State court's conviction on the ground that Negroes had been "systematically excluded" from the jury roll. Alabamans and the Press of the entire South took that decision with a stunned and apprehensive silence. It was at that critical...
Herndon attributed the oppressions of his race which have been manifeat in his own case and that of the Scottsboro boys to "the means by which the Capitalists are attempting to force Fascism upon...
Referring to the charges of rape which have been brought against the boys of the Scottsboro case, Herndon said, "If you really want to know who has been committing rape, look to the light color of my skin and that of my fellow American Negroes. Negros have not gone out and raped their innocent white slave masters...
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...