White House Picketers, 1933
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Photograph of demonstrators in front of the White House protesting the jailing of the Scottsboro boys in 1933.
Credit: Bettman/Corbis
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Photograph of protest of the jailing of the Scottsboro Boys in 1933 (pdf, 470 Kb).
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