#Scottsboro Boys

[reasoningdaily]

#scottsboro boys #Black Lives Matter #Wrightsville #Arkansas 1959

[mimi-0007]

#scottsboro #scottsboro boys #black history #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #american history #equal rights #black lives matter #equality

[newyorkthegoldenage]

More than 1,200 braved the weather to attend a rally in Union Square, December 9, 1933, on behalf of the nine Scottsboro boys. The meeting was arranged by the International Labor Defense and was backed by the Communist Party. The marchers carried banners and a sign with the image of a lynching, and the legend "Alabama - The land of the tree and the home of the grave."

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Scottsboro Boys #rally #Dec. 9 #9 Dec. #protest #protest rally #Union Square #racism

[gwydionmisha]

Lead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"

#Lead Belly #Scottsboro Boys #Black History #Music

[todaysdocument]

In 1931, nine Black teens and young men (the Scottsboro Boys) were tried and convicted of assault and rape in Alabama by all-white juries within two weeks. In this letter, a young woman asks the President to help them. 4/10/1933. 

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice

Series: Straight Numerical Files

File Unit: 158260 sub 46

Transcription: 

(in pencil) justice

(stamped in purple) RESPECTFULLY REFERRED FOR ACKNOWLED_ENT AND CONSIDERATION. __________ to the president

New York City, NY

April 10, 1933

Pres. F. D. Roosevelt

Washington D.C.

(hand written in red) 158260-

46-

(stamped in purple) Department of Justice

Apr 26 1933 P.M.

Mail and Files Division

F.   Chief Clerk

Apr 27 1933

Dear Sir.

  I don't know whether I am doing a right deed as to plead to you. But I do know that I am all right to plead for my race.

  Pres. Roosevelt, since it may be in your power, can you for God's sake save those poor Scottsboro Ala. Colored boys from death.

  After all, they didn't murder anyone. Why should they die? I am not asking you dear president to free them, unless they really deserve Freedom. But I am asking you to please take them from under that heavy yolke of "death".

 Help us please for Christ's sake.

  I am a southern colored girl in New York.

(Miss) South Carolinean

#archivesgov #April 10 #1933 #1930s #Scottsboro Boys #Scottsboro #Alabama #Jim Crow #Civil Rights #Black history #African American history #FDR administration

[jelly-o630]

Listening to musical theatre is all fun and games until you find a musical that you’re pretty sure all of eight people have listened to and the only social media presence you can find for it is the creators themselves and the same 10 promotional images that every reviewer has and the only way you can talk about it is to trick (force) your friends and family to listen it to it

#musicals #theatre #musical theatre #unknown soldier musical #unknown soldier #the ballad of little Joe #Sight and sound theatres #I know they’re a Christian theatre group and that’ll turn a lot of people off #but I stg #they’re actually really great #Tamar of the river #witness Uganda #We Are One: A musical written in 24 hours #absolutely hilarious #and for what #Tango Argentino #Scottsboro boys #Rumi: The musical #Penelope: Or how the odyssey was really written #that one’s got a barbershop quartet #I love love barbershop quartets #In the Green #In the Light: a Faustian tale

[dearyallfrommatt]

“Scottsboro Boys”

A song by the legendary Lead Belly, known to his momma as Huddie Ledbetter. There’s a lot of talk going on around the definition of conservatives' new go-to slur “woke,” and I think it’s important to learn a little history of the phrase in African American vernacular. This song is about the case in Alabama in 1931 when nine African American young men, some as young as 13, were accused of raping two white women based on shaky (to say the least) evidence, nearly lynched by Scottsboro locals, and the resulting trials were the first exposure much of America had to the legal injustices of the Jim Crow South.

Lead Belly said he tells other African American performers and entertainers who aren’t from the South to “stay woke,” because Jim Crow is always looking for any excuse, their fame outside the South or their wealth doesn’t matter. The phrase goes back even earlier to abolitionists and early civil rights workers, particularly Black ones, cautioning them that the law isn’t always on their side and that’s on purpose.

 That’s what it means and that’s why conservatives hate it. Stay woke.

#youtube #Lead Belly #Scottsboro Boys #Jim Crow #racism in America #protest songs #blues #folk #protest blues

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

Nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and arrested for throwing a group of white teens off the train further up the line. March 25, 1931 Image: Scottsboro Boys and Juanita Jackson Mitchell, 1936. (Public Domain) On this day in history, March 25, 1931, nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and…

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#1930s #Alabama #Criminal Justice #racism #Scottsboro Boys

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

A Few Thoughts for "Independence Day", illustration by William Siegel in the July 1931 New Masses.

(source: marxists.org)

#civil rights history #us history #scottsboro boys #mooney billings #thomas mooney #warren k billings #us labor movement #william siegel #new masses #illustration

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #the scottsboro boys #john kander #fred ebb #david thompson #kander and ebb #language: english

[nando161mando]

"I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.

The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."

Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness."

#wokeness #i just woke up #stay woke #lead belly #The Scottsboro Boys #best stay woke #awareness #racism 101 #racist #racism #aware #woke #161 #1312 #how to be an antiracist #antiracisteducation #antiracism #goodnightwhitepride #antifa #antifascist #antinazis #antinazi #anti elon musk #anti capitalism #antinationalist #antinationalism #antiauthoritarian #history #1930s #ausgov

[obrother1976]

no audio more special in the world than that one live reading of america where the audience laughs after nearly every line

#'america i am the scottsboro boys' - 'YOU ARE!' #poetry #the way i know god isnt real bc i wasnt alive back then to see him read live. ugh.

[mimi-0007]

The Scottboro Boys were 9 African American teenagers and young men, ages 13-20, accused in Alabama of raping 2 white women in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. The cases included a lynch mob before the suspects has been indicted, all white juries, rush trials,and disruptive mobs. It is commonly cited as an example of legal injustice in the United States legal system.

#black history #black literature #black community #black tumblr #civil rights #black history is american history #racist #lynching #scottsboro boys #injustice #naacp #black lives matter #black and white #black americans #black history month

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Harlemites gather to read a placard protesting against the decision of the jury in the trial of Haywood Patterson, April 9, 1933. Patterson was one of the nine Scottsboro Boys to be indicted, in Decatur, Ala. He was found guilty of assault against two white girls near Scottsboro, Ala. in 1931.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Scottsboro Boys #vintage Harlem #political protest #April 9 #9 April #Haywood Patterson #racism

[broadwayreprise]

#broadway #tony awards #the book of mormon #catch me if you can #the scottsboro boys #sister act

[nahobinobrunestud]

The way some people on this (mostly white) website cheer at the idea of the death penalty as the reactionary idea of a legal measure that "makes all the bad people go away" in the exact same way as those on the right do but "progressive this time we swear" because it'd "only be against sex offenders and such" (the right argues this too by the way) gives me the strong impression that many people on this site blatantly weren't paying attention to or at least aren't applying anything that they learned about racism and the civil rights movement back in grade school (assuming they're from the US at least). Sometimes I wonder if half the damn 20 somethings in this site have ever even heard of the Scottsboro Boys or the southern legal system in the 1900s or why lynchings happened and if they even care.

#racism