Letter from the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in New York, New York, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
A letter to Governor Miller from the Executive Committee of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, which included many prominent writers and intellectuals as members. They write that they have heard of starvation and brutality tactics carried out by the officials at the Birmi...
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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/6158 |
| Summary: | A letter to Governor Miller from the Executive Committee of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, which included many prominent writers and intellectuals as members. They write that they have heard of starvation and brutality tactics carried out by the officials at the Birmingham County jail against the Scottsboro Boys. They write that they see this as "a phase of the general intimidation and persecution" African Americans across the nation and in the South particularly. They demand the redemption of the Scottsboro Boys' full prison privileges. |
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