"Death Penalty Properly Demanded in Fiendish Crime of Nine Burly Negroes."
This article discusses the upcoming trial of the nine "Scottsboro Boys," were were falsely charged with assaulting two white women on a train. The piece commends the local citizens for allowing the authorities to handle the matter, promising that such cooperation will ensure that the defen...
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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/3425 |
| Summary: | This article discusses the upcoming trial of the nine "Scottsboro Boys," were were falsely charged with assaulting two white women on a train. The piece commends the local citizens for allowing the authorities to handle the matter, promising that such cooperation will ensure that the defendants will be punished: "There's no complete remedy for the harm that has been done but to the credit of the citizens as a whole they have sustained respect for law and order...This was a heinous and unspeakable crime...The white man will not stand for such acts and because of this a sober mind and court are being allowed to take the place of incendiary and inflamatory [sic] maneuvers. Society is better for it." |
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