Telegram from American Engineers Specialists Workers in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.

A telegram from American Engineers Specialists Workers in Moscow to Governor Miller signed by "Smith Nelson Appleman Mandel Herzog Bogart Brand Webber Pearl Kuttner Silber Rivkin Guralnick Granich White Chesneym." This group announces a resolution adopted in March 2 meeting which protests...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/6078
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Summary:A telegram from American Engineers Specialists Workers in Moscow to Governor Miller signed by "Smith Nelson Appleman Mandel Herzog Bogart Brand Webber Pearl Kuttner Silber Rivkin Guralnick Granich White Chesneym." This group announces a resolution adopted in March 2 meeting which protests the Scottsboro Boys' death sentences, calls them a "legal lynching," and demands their immediate release. This telegram arrived in the same month that the Alabama Supreme Court decision to uphold their 1931 sentences.