How W. W. Callahan, the judge in the case of the Scottsboro boys, said, ”I’ll take care of that Jew boy from New York” was recounted by Smuel S. Leibowitz, attorney for nine negroes, addressing the Politics Club of the College of the City of New York.
Voicing a bitter denunciation of Southern justice, he declared: ”I’ve tried more capital crimes than any man in this country, but I went completely haywire when a vrdict of death was returned The Jury filed into the courtromm rollicking and Joking, and I remarked that a laughing jury never convicts. I changed my mind.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
