How Did Women Shape the Discourse and Further Interracial Cooperation in the Worldwide Mass Movement to "Free the Scottsboro Boys"?
Related Links
Scottsboro, An American Tragedy
PBS site accompanying its "American Experience" series production on Scottsboro; includes a description of the trials, biographies of participants, timeline, maps and period photographs.
Famous American Trials - "The Scottsboro Boys," 1931—1937
Part of a series on famous American trials from the University of Missouri/Kansas City Law School. Douglas O. Linder's "A Trial Account" is accompanied by chronology, biographies, the complete litany of trials, appellate decisions, images and original quotes from trial participants.
Digital & Multimedia Center Michigan State University
Reproduces a booklet published in 1934 by the International Labor Defense on the occasion of President Roosevelt's refusal to see a contingent of Scottsboro Mothers on Mother's Day. Entitled "Mr. President: Free the Scottsboro Boys!" it includes text of the letter the Mothers would have presented to the president, a letter from Ruby Bates, and lists of prominent black and white women and men making up the assembled group.
The Case of the "Scottsboro Boys"
Includes a political cartoon that appeared in the Daily Worker, the daily newspaper of the Communist party of the USA. The sketch, dated 1935, depicts a rally in support of the Scottsboro boys.
NY Times: Turning truth on its head — The Scottsboro case
An article from the People's Weekly World, 15 February 1997, with a reminiscence by Mary Licht, a communist activist who visited with Scottsboro Mothers shortly after the 1931 trials. She had previously been successfully defended by the International Labor Defense against a trumped up charge of sedition for her work in the Unemployed Council.
Industrial Workers of the World
This site explores the Scottsboro case and the activities of a radical black activist, Lucy Parsons. Parsons was connected to the International Labor Defense as well as the "Free the Scottsboro Boys!" campaign.
