Telegram from National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism in New York, New York, to Governor B.M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
A telegram to Governor Miller from the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism supported by organizations of educators, physicians, and intellectuals numbering 400,000 and signed by Albert Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary. The telegram describes the Ku Klux Klan and other "silver sh...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | A telegram to Governor Miller from the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism supported by organizations of educators, physicians, and intellectuals numbering 400,000 and signed by Albert Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary. The telegram describes the Ku Klux Klan and other "silver shirt" organizations as "fascist elements" responsible for the lynching climate of the South and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys. It demands a "stoppage to anti-Jewish and Negro baiting" and holds the Governor personally responsible for the safety of Scottsboro defendants, attorneys, and witnesses. |
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