Photograph of Samuel Leibowitz with four released "Scottsboro Boys"

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An early copy print black-and-white photograph of four released “Scottsboro Boys” and their attorney, Samuel Leibowitz. This photograph was captured inside the wood-paneled office of New York City attorney Samuel Leibowitz. Seated on a wooden bench seat at his large office window with his legs up, Leibowitz points out the Statue of Liberty to Eugene Williams, Willie Roberson, Roy Wright, and Olen Montgomery (left to right). Leibowitz wears a light dress shirt, dark trousers, and two-tone laced dress shoes. Three of the boys are dressed in dungarees. Beside Eugene Williams is a bronze sculpture of a human figure standing on one leg.

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