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(An excerpt from my work-in-progress manuscript on the Scottsboro Mothers) Josephine Powell, Ida Norris, Viola Montgomery, and Mamie Williams joined Ada Wright in New York on April 28, greeting a crowd numbered in the thousands at Pennsylvania Station. From there, a welcome committee escorted them to several workers’ homes where they would reside during theirContinue reading “Scottsboro Mothers’ May Day”