Letter from Percy W. Powles in Berkeley, California, to the Governor of Alabama.
Letter to the governor condemning the "framed-up evidence" convicting the Scottsboro Boys to death. Percy W. Powles writes that he cannot believe such great athletes as the Crimson Tide, whom he saw play a game against the Cougars, represents an unjust state. He asks that Governor Miller s...
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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/6070 |
| Summary: | Letter to the governor condemning the "framed-up evidence" convicting the Scottsboro Boys to death. Percy W. Powles writes that he cannot believe such great athletes as the Crimson Tide, whom he saw play a game against the Cougars, represents an unjust state. He asks that Governor Miller stop lynchings and legal murders that bring contempt upon the state. |
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