From Scottsboro Comes the cry of Mothers for us to help: Museum Object and Cultural History
From Scottsboro Comes the cry of Mothers for us to help: Date: September 10, 1932. Published by: International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946. Subject of: Haywood Patterson, American, 1912 - 1952.
The object in the museum catalogue
A leaflet titled “From Scottsboro Comes the cry of Mothers for us to help”, published by the International Labor Defense and signed by the mothers of the “Scottsboro Boys”. The document is printed in black ink on a single sheet of light brown paper, folded to form four pages.
The first page opens in the style of a letter, addressed “TO WORKERS AND FRIENDS EVERYWHERE” and signed “With confidence and trust in the working class,” followed by the signatures of the mothers: Josephine Powell, Lula B Jackson, Viola Montgomery, Janie Pattison, Mamie William, Lucille Wright, and Beatrice Maddox. The remaining three pages present a call to action that begins [SCOTTSBORO / ISSUED BY THE / INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: September 10, 1932
- Published by: International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946
- Subject of: Haywood Patterson, American, 1912 - 1952
- Subject of: Ozie Powell, American, born 1916
- Subject of: Andy Wright, American, born 1912
- Subject of: Roy Wright, American, 1918 - 1959
- Subject of: Charlie Weems, American, born 1911
- Subject of: Willie Roberson, American
- Subject of: Clarence Norris, American
- Type: leaflets
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 7 × 8 1/2 in. (17.8 × 21.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Labor
- Object number: 2021.16.9.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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