This Pittsburgh Courier article is reporting on the Vassar students that protested the Scottsboro Boys’ death sentences. There is a photograph picturing two Vassar women and two Wellesley women. The caption states that these women went to D.C. to speak with two senators to plea for the overturning of the verdict of this case.
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Co-eds From Vassar, Wellesly, Plead For Scottsboro Boys
The Pittsburgh Courier (1911-1950);
Apr 9, 1932; ProQuest
pg. 1
“…The Human Thing To Do”
Evelyn Rosenthal, Riva Stocker, Florence Smith and Dorothy Lippincott, co-eds of exclusive Vassar and Wellesley Colleges, who went to Washington, D.C. last week in an effort to secure aid from leading senators in the fight to save the Scottsboro boys.
College Girls at Nation’s Capital Plea for Youths
Washington, Apr, 7—Four young white co-eds from Vassar and Wellesley colleges visited the Capitol last Friday in an effort to arouse sentiment in Congress against the execution of the Scottsboro boys, under sentence to die May 13 for alleged assaults upon two white “hobo” girls.
The students were Riva Stocker, Evelyn Rosenthal and Dorothy Lippincott of Vassar, and Florence Smith of Wellesley.
They were coolly received by Senator Hugo L. Black (D) of Alabama, but when they visited Senator Royal S. Copeland (D) of New York, their sincere pleas were listened to intently.
The girls asked Senator Copeland to make a Senate speech on the case. He told them he regarded this as a state matter to be settled by Alabama, without federal interference but agreed to read the record of the case when his visitors offered to provide him with it.
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