The following report represents the sum and substance of the findings of the Task Force. The members of the Task Force held five public meetings in which testimony was presented by employees from the effected State agencies. Testimony was also...
Report that finds systemic deficiencies have combined with financial shortcomings to create overcrowding in the Alabama Dept. of Corrections (ADOC) system
"Threats of a wholesale lynching of nine young negroes charged with criminally attacking two white girls were calmed when the Alabama national guard was called out to guard the jail at Scottsboro. The girls, accompanied by a half-brother of one of...
Postcard from Bertha Markowitz in Brooklyn, New York, to Governor B. M. Miller in Montgomery, Alabama. Markowitz is protesting the conviction of the "Scottsboro Boys," nine young African American men who were falsely accused of rape and tried in...
The courthouse was guarded by the Alabama National Guard during the trial. The defendant was found guilty and electrocuted at Kilby Prison a month later.