Young Blacks and Latinos 'Lynched' in Manhattan
New York Amsterdam News › September 09, 2009
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There were no Black politicians in Alabama when the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of raping two white, female hobos near Scottsboro, Ala., in 1930. Accordingly, there were no Blacks either on the grand jury that indicted them or the petit jury that convicted them. The denial of the right to vote for Blacks in Alabama prompted the Supreme Court to reverse the second convictions in Norris v. Alabama.
April 22: UAM Weekly Forum at Elks Plaza, 1068 Harriet Tubman (Fulton Street) near Classon Avenue in Brooklyn at 7:30 p.m. Take the "C" train to Franklin Avenue. Three blocks to Elks Plaza. Admission is free. The focus will be on the April rally on the steps of City Hall acknowledging the 20th anniversary of the "Central Park Six." No justice! No peace!See: www.reinstatealtonmaddox.net for "Tiempo v. Like It Is: Public Affairs Program," "Post-Traumatic Slavery Disorders, Pt. I," "Plea to Help the Central Park Six" and "Obama Administration and Secret Societies."[...] there were no Blacks either on the grand jury that indicted them or the petit jury that convicted them. [...] it allowed for the appointment of Justice Thomas GaUigan instead of the random selection of a possible fair-minded judge.See the full content of this document
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Young Blacks and Latinos 'Lynched' in Manhattan
There were no Black politicians in Alabama when the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of raping two white, female hobos near Scottsboro, Ala., in 1930. Accordingly, there were no Blacks either on the grand jury that indicted them or the petit jury that convicted them. The denial of the right to vote for Blacks in Alabama prompted the Supreme Court to reverse the second convictions in Norris v. Alabama...
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