How Did Women Shape the Discourse
and Further Interracial Cooperation
in the Worldwide Mass Movement to Free the Scottsboro Boys?
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Introduction
Scottsboro
Participants
Robin
D. G. Kelley, "Scottsboro Case," 1998
Part One: The Trials, 1931-1933
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1: Helen Marcy, “Whip up Lynch Mobs Against 9 Negroes in Alabama,” 4 April
1931
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2: Helen Marcy, “ ‘Save Us’ Negro Boys Write Folks in Chattanooga,” 18 April
1931
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3: Hollace Ransdell, "Report on the Scottsboro, Ala. Case for the American
Civil Liberties Union," 27 May 1931
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4: Mary Licht, "I Remember
the Scottsboro Defense," 15 February 1997
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5: Ada Wright, “My Two Sons
Face the Electric Chair,” September 1931
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6: Mary Heaton Vorse, “The
Scottsboro Trial,” 19 April 1933
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7: Excerpts from the Testimony
of Ruby Bates, April 1933
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8: Mary Heaton Vorse, “How Scottsboro Happened,” 10 May 1933
Part Two: The Defense in the Streets, 1931-1936
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9: Helen Marcy, “Mrs. Patterson, Back from N.Y. Tells of Mass Drive to Save
9,” 9 May 1931
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10: “Reds Score Pastor for Ban at Church,” 21 October 1931
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11: Viola Montgomery, “Free Our Innocent Children,” August 1932
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12A: “Police Clubs Rout 200
Defiant Reds, Smash Banners and Scatter Harlem Marchers Who Lacked Permit,”
26 April 1931
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12B: “Mass Protest Already
Gains Points in Court; Mrs. Wright and Girl Welcomed by New York Workers;
Member hit N.A.A.C.P. Traitors,” 16 May 1931
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12C: “Thousands in Protest
March in New York,” 23 May 1931
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12D: “Protest at Executions.
Speakers Here Say Eight Negroes in Alabama Were ‘Railroaded,’” 29 June 1931
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12E: “Mrs. Williams in Greenville
Meet,” 18 July 1931
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12F: “Prepare Scottsboro
Defense Conference in N.Y. Sept. 13; Local United Front Scottsboro Defense
Committee Warns Against Let Down in Campaign; Miss Maddox Speaks in Superior,”
7 September 1931
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12G: “10,000 Hear Please
to Free Negroes; Union Square Traffic Halted as Reds Urge Racial Unity in
Scottsboro Defense. . .Mother of Condemned Youth Appeals for Funds,” 15 April
1933
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12H: “5,000 Fight Police
in Harlem Streets; Trouble Starts as Tear Gas Is Used to Halt an Unlicensed
Scottsboro Protest Meeting,” 18 March 1934
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12I: “100,000 Rally Here
With No Disorder; Reds Throng
Union Square to Cheer for Revolution -- Their Parade Lasts All Day,” 2 May
1934
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13: “Mrs. Ada Wright--Mother of Two of the Scottsboro Boys--Just Returned
from Europe--Will Make her First Public Appearance in Harlem,” 17 December
1932
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14: “Hail the Heroic Scottsboro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright!” 17 December 1932
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15: I.L.D. Open Letter, May 1933
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16: Harlem Section I.L.D. Branches
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17: “On to Washington! Working People of Harlem, Negro and White!” Rally Handbill,
1933
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18: “Ruby Bates Tells Story,” 6 May 1933
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19: National Scottsboro Action Committee, “Hear Ruby Bates,” Rally Handbill,
10 May 1933
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20: "Demonstrate!" Rally Handbill, April 1934
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21: Marguerite Young, "Class War Mother's Day," June 1934
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22: "Stop Scottsboro Murder on December 7th!" Rally Handbill, October 1934
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23: Scottsboro: The Shame of America, The True Story and the True Meaning
of This Famous Case, 1936
Part Three: Clarina Michelson and the Communist Party in Harlem
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24: Clarina Michelson, Excerpts from Oral History, 29 October 1979
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25: Clarina Michelson, Directive to the Harlem Section of the Communist Party
on Negro Recruitment, 1933
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26: Clarina Michelson to Comrades Ford and Krumbein, 1 June 1934
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27: "Clarina Michelson, Communist Candidate for Assembly, 15th Assembly
District, NYC," 30 October 1934
Images
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1: Ruby Bates with Scottsboro Mothers, May Day Parade, 1933
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2: Ruby Bates with Scottsboro Mothers, May 1934
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