4,000 March in Washington to Free ‘Scottsboro Boys’ – 1933

Several thousand demonstrators marched in a steady rain for more than six miles through the city May 8, 1933 to demand freedom for the “Scottsboro Boys.”

 

Marchers are shown here on West Executive Avenue between the White House and what is now known as the Old Executive Office Building. West Executive Avenue is closed to the public today.

 

The demonstrators have already passed by the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and are shown just before turning to pass the south side of the White House near the Ellipse.

 

Note the signs calling for freedom for Tom Mooney, Angelo Herndon and Euel Lee in addition to the “Scottsboro Boys.”

 

The march route: Assemble at Florida Avenue and New York Avenue, west on New York Avenue to N Street, west on N street to Thirteenth Street, south on Thirteenth Street to New York Avenue, west on New York Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue, west on Pennsylvania Avenue to West Executive Avenue, south to roadway south of the White House, east around the roadway to Pennsylvania Avenue via E Street, east on Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue, east on Constitution Avenue to Second Street NE, south on Second Street to C Street SE, west on C Street to third Street SW, north on Third Street to Seaton Place: Rally then disband.

 

For an article on the Scottsboro marches and rallies in Washington, D.C, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/scottsboro-boys-...

 

For more images related to the Scottsboro campaign in Washington, D.C., see flic.kr/s/aHsjE3vopE

 

Photo ©Bettman/Corbis.

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