Letter from Comité Mooney-Scottsboro, Section de Lille in Lille, France, to Governor B.M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
Letter from Comité Mooney-Scottsboro, Section de Lille responding to news of Haywood Patterson's death after a prison revolt. The letter questions the official version of these events, expresses strong doubt about Patterson's conviction based on the evidence, and demands that the U.S. gove...
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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/6155 |
| Summary: | Letter from Comité Mooney-Scottsboro, Section de Lille responding to news of Haywood Patterson's death after a prison revolt. The letter questions the official version of these events, expresses strong doubt about Patterson's conviction based on the evidence, and demands that the U.S. government, because of its strong international profile, take a stand against lynch law and racial hatred by releasing the Scottsboro Boys. The Mooney-Scottsboro Committee was a United Front group that called for the freedom of both American political activist and labor leader Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro Boys. |
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