Black day
Publisher: Independent Young Americans
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Notes: "We, the Independent Young Americans, do hereby call upon the citizens of the United States to join with us this October 4, 1937 in proclaiming universal mourning for the travesty on justice which is this day begun as ex-Senator Hugo Black, proved member of the Ku Klux Klan, which organization is dedicated to racial and religious intolerance, bigotry and class hatred, takes his seat as a duly appointed and confirmed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, highest tribunal of our democracy and safeguard of equity, justice and liberty.

"Whereas this travesty on justice is now begun, we proclaim that henceforth October 4, 1937 shall be known in the history of the United States as Black Day and shall be so mourned each year as the blackest day in the history of American justice."

Within mourning border.