SCOTTSBORO BOYS Scottsboro New Trial Emergency Fund

Sale 2377 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 812

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Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500

SCOTTSBORO BOYS. Scottsboro New Trial Emergency Fund. Printed Letter on special pictorial Scottsboro Boys letterhead, Signed by William Paterson of the International Labor Defense * [together with] the printed return mail envelope; the letter has been restored and linen-backed. New York, May, 1933

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A scarce form letter that was sent to people who were known to be sympathetic to civil rights causes and especially that of the Scottsboro Boys. Instead of the usual 'boilerplate' plea for cash; the letter provides a great deal of information about the trial, and the case's history. 'The struggle for the Scottsboro Boys is inextricably bound up with the struggle for elementary human rights of the thirteen million Negroes in America, rights to vote, serve on juries, to fair trials. . .rights supposedly guaranteed all citizens."