Correspondence dealing with a Communist activities in Birmingham, Alabama.
In the first letter Brigadier General J. C. Persons of the Alabama National Guard sends Governor Benjamin Miller an account of recent events in Birmingham, which was submitted by another officer. The second letter contains the report of Second Lieutenant Ralph E. Hurst. He discusses the relocation o...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1893 |
| Summary: | In the first letter Brigadier General J. C. Persons of the Alabama National Guard sends Governor Benjamin Miller an account of recent events in Birmingham, which was submitted by another officer. The second letter contains the report of Second Lieutenant Ralph E. Hurst. He discusses the relocation of the International Labor Defense's southern headquarters to Birmingham; the attempts of local police to suppress communist activity; the involvement of the ILD in the Scottsboro Boys trial; communist organization efforts in the city, including two meetings that were attended by white and African American citizens; and anti-communist demonstrations by the Ku Klux Klan. |
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