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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SCOTTSBORO BOYS. Bill of Civil Rights for the Negro People. Four long folio mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only; faint vertical and horizontal creases where originally folded for mailing. Np, circa 1930's
a rare bill of rights for the negro people issued by the International Labor Defense (ILD), the legal arm of the American Communist Party, established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sacco and Vanzetti, was active in the anti-lynching, movements for civil rights, and prominently participated in the defense and legal appeals in the cause célèbre of the Scottsboro Boys in the early 1930s.
