Word: scottsboros
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Tallapoosa's racial clash produced reverberations outside Alabama. In New York the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has been conducting a legal defense of the Scottsboro convicts denied that it was connected in any way with the Camp Hill affair. It charged that Communist agitators were deliberately "muddling the matter" and warned that their tactics to win Negroes to Communism were "the best means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp...
...inflame his hearers more the speaker directed their attention to the death sentence passed on eight young blackamoors at Scottsboro for raping two white girls in a freight train (TIME, June 22). He denounced these sentences as "legal lynching," demanded that the black boys be retried by a black jury. Into such a frenzy of excitement and protest did he whip his audience that they were openly threatening the life of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller unless he released the condemned...
Meanwhile, bewildered by all the outcry their case was creating, the eight blackamoors of Scottsboro sat in death cells at Kilby prison waiting for the Supreme Court of Alabama to review their convictions next winter...
...months ago the population of Scottsboro, Ala., temporarily increased five fold. Some 10,000 visitors swarmed to town to be on hand for the trial of nine itinerant Negroes who had been charged with assaulting two white girls. The girls, clad in overalls and accompanied by seven white men, had been '"bumming" their way in a freight car from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Huntsville, Ala., when the Negroes, aged from 14 to 21, boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants...
First public figure to enter the altercation was Author Theodore Dreiser, who protested the Scottsboro affair to Governor Miller of Alabama...