Resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174 in Staten Island, New York, to Governor Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
A resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174--a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party. Reacting to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur, the resolution asks that Governor Miller immediately r...
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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/6136 |
| Summary: | A resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174--a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party. Reacting to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur, the resolution asks that Governor Miller immediately release the boys; enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution; protect the boys and their attorneys from "Ku Klux Klan lynch mobs;" and change the venue for remaining trials to Mobile, Alabama. |
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