Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-15
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Scottsboro Case
LARGEST INTER-RACIAL MEET
ING HEARS SPEAKERS
(Staff Correspondent


At the largest inter-racial gather
ing held in Minneapolis in many
months the International Labor De-
Tense outlined its program in the
conduct of the celebrated Scottsboro
case and similar cases at Zion Bap-
fist Church, last Sunday afternoon.
A similar meeting held in st. Paul
Monday night at the German-Ameri-
can House drew another large crowd.
Each meeting was addressed by
Richard B. Moore, of New York, or
ganizer for the l. L. D., Mrs. jamie
Patterson, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
mother of Haywood Patterson, one of
the nine Scottsboro youths and Les
ter Carter, white youth, native of
Texas, who was with the white girls
who figured in the famous case. Car
ter along with Ruby Bates, one of
the girls, testified at the last trial that
none of the boys touched the girls.
Moore Electrifes Crowd
Richard B. Moore, brilliant and
earnest orator from New York, re-
peatedly won long and enthusiastic
applause from the Sunday afternoon
audience. Despite the heat Moore
kept the large sweltering group at
tentive for over an hour with his
sharp rapier like thrusts at what he
termed the lynch-law government of
the capitalistic system. He called the
prosecution of Wilbur Hardeman and
James Johnson in the Minneapolis
Gateway riot case, "a Scottsboro of
the north" He detailed step by step
the entire activity Of the l. L. D. in
The Alabama case. He censured what
ne termed, Negro misleaders" sin
Cling out Congressman Oscar De
Priest for heavy criticism. "The
Scottsboro case is the most significant
phenomenon in American history" he
;aid, because it marks the first time
he united Negro and white workers
nave banded themselves together to
stop the persecution of the American
Negro worker" Negro and white
workers kept apart by the capitalists
must band themselves together to
top the exploitation of labor, the
peaker said. Long sustained spon-
;aneous applause rang through the
packed church as Moore finished his
ak by appealing for funds to carry
IN the Scottsboro case.
Mrs. Patterson Tells Facts About
Case
Mrs. jamie Patterson, mother of
Haywood Patterson, the first of the
youth tried during the Spring and
whose conviction was reversed and
new trial ordered by Judge Horton,
the Alabama trial Judge, spoke feel
ingly of how her boy left home to
find work in Memphis only to be
caught up in one of the most noted
cases of racial persecution in modern
American history. She told of her
attempts to raise money to defend
her son; of the duplicity of Stephen
Roddy, white lawyer, who the Negro
minister's alliance of Chattanooga en-
ployed to- defend the youths. Mrs.
Patterson evidently woman of little
or no schooling, nevertheless made a
convincing appeal for support of the
I. L. DIS fight for freedom for the
youths.
Lester Carter Speaks
AS the final speaker, the chairman,
Asa Mitchell, introduced Lester Car
ter, the white southern youth who
defied southern conventions and tradi-
lions to testify against the conviction
of Negro youths who were charged
with assault on southern white
women. Carter told graphic story
of his ride on the freight train with
the two girls, Ruby Bates and Vic
toria Price. He told the audience
that he was with the girls during
their entire trip and that the girls
were not even approached by the Ne
gro youths. He did not know, he told
his listeners; that the boys were to
be held on any other charge than va
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