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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz, under guard by the state militia, 1932. Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21036733
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The third Selma Civil Rights March frontline. From far left: John Lewis, an unidentified nun; Ralph Abernathy; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ralph Bunche; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; Frederick Douglas Reese. Second row: Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Bunche is Rabbi Maurice Davis. Heschel later wrote, "When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying." Joseph Ellwanger is standing in the second row behind the nun. By http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/faculty/heschel-photos.htmlThis URL is [as of Sept. 17, 2014] a dead link; Therefore, for a web.archive.org (Wayback machine) "snapshot" of this URL, please (feel free to) refer to this "archived" copy: "Heschel Selected Photos". the Trustees of Dartmouth College [faculty] [Department of Religion]. Archived from the original on Sep 17, 2014. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5004303
#workingClass#LaborHistory#civilrights
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DoomsdaysCW

#Alabama: #Tuscaloosa #PublicLibrary to host second #RepairCafe

by Allen Smith Mar 2, 2025

"Tuscaloosa Public Library to host second Repair Cafe

"Do you miss wearing your favorite pair of old jeans or using an old household item?

"Tuscaloosa Public Library is hosting its second Repair Cafe on March 22 from noon to 3 p.m.

"Volunteers will have stations for different categories of items and will also be there to teach attendees how to repair some items themselves.

"Organizers are also hoping to save space in local landfills."

Source:
wvua23.com/news/tuscaloosa-pub
#RepairCafesAlabama #SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule #FixIt

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Atlanta Antifascists :antifa:

A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.

newschannel5.com/news/newschan

While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.

We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.

atlantaantifa.org/2021/12/04/i

atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/r

More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:

appalachiaresearchclub.noblogs

arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post

Patriot Front Fight Video.jpeg
News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF) · 'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in TennesseeBy Phil Williams
#PatriotFront#Tennessee#georgia
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