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[Letter] 2021 December 6, Angela Holder, Houston, TX, to Hon. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, Washington, D.C.
No full textProfessor Angela Holder writes in support of clemency for the soldiers of 24th Infantry. Professor Holder is the grand-niece of Corporal Jesse Moore, who was convicted and executed in the Nesbit trial.December 6, 2021
The Honorable Christine Wormuth
Secretary of the Army
101 Army Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20310-0101
Re: Clemency Petition
Dear Madam Secretary,
I am writing this letter in support of the Petition for Clemency submitted on behalf of the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment. I am requesting the records of trial be forwarded to the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records to consider overturning the convictions and sentences for the 110 soldiers in the following three trials: U. S. v. Nesbit, et al; U. S. v. Washington, et al; and U. S. v. Tillman, et al.
I would like to tell you about my Great-uncle, Corporal Jesse Moore, Company I of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment. He was one of 13 men hanged December 11, 1917 in secret (before the trial results had been made public). Uncle Jesse proudly served his country, despite rejecting his Mother’s plea to not rejoin because she “felt something bad would happen to him.” The military provided an opportunity for Black men to escape the oppression associated with strict enforcement of “Jim Crow” segregation in the South and engender respect and dignity while in service to this nation.
The trouble in Houston was unfortunate and a byproduct of the times: Man’s inhumanity to man with the cover of the law was bound to overflow in frustration, disrespect, and a disregard for simple decency. A “rush to judgement punctuated by an inexplicable execution” resulted in a waste of human potential. My Uncle and his comrades had the right to a fair hearing denied with the absence of requesting an appeal.
It is in this spirit of fairness, I am requesting a redress of the convictions and sentences of the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment punished as a result of the following trials: U.S. v. Nesbit, et al; U.S. v. Washington, et al and U.S. v. Tillman, et al.
Thank You for the opportunity to present this matter before you in the name of justice.
Respectfully,
Angela L. Holder
Angela L. Holde
[Letter] 2021 December 14, Sandra Hajtman, Houston, TX to Hon. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, Washington, D.C.
No full textSandra Hatjman is the great-granddaughter of Ira Raney, a Houston police officer who was killed during the Camp Logan Riot of 1917
[Letter] 2021 January 19, to Retired General and Flag Officers, from James E. McPherson, Under Secretary of the Army, Washington, D.C.
No full textResponse to letter dated January 13, 2021, from the Retired Flag Officers
Returning the 24th Infantry Soldiers to the Colors, Addendum.
No full textSubmitted to the Director of the Army Staff to assist with the comprehensive review of the original petition. Includes letters of support as well as outlines the significant discrepancies in the testimony of cooperating immunized witnesses between the Nesbit and Tillman trials. It outlines the legal inconsistencies in the findings of Tillman, and highlights the similarities between due process violations in these three courts-marital and the 1944 case of US v Alston, et al
[Letter] 2021 January 13, Retired Flag Officers to Hon. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army, and General James McConville, Office of the Chief of Staff, Washington, D.C.
No full textReturning the 24th Infantry Soldiers to the Colors.
No full textClemency petition created out of a joint project between the NAACP and South Texas College of Law Houston to restore the honorable characterization of the 110 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry, who were convicted of mutiny in the 1917 Houston Riot. Their convictions, while technically legal, were not just. It is time that the records of these men reflect the service they rendered to their nation and continue the legacy of honor, patriotism, and valor that mark the history of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Corrected copy of original petition. Corrections were limited to typographical error
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No full textNiloufar Hafizi '18, Nathalie N. Kalombo '18, William N. Haacker, 3L win the William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition, held in Minneapolis-St. Paul
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No full textEmma L. Short '18, Sarah M. Wedgeworth '18, and James A. Osso, 3L win the 31st Annual Judge August A. Rendigs Products Liability Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the University of Cincinnati College of Law
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No full textStephanie L. Bryant '18, Niloufar Hafizi '18, and Randall D. Towns '18 win the William B. Spong, Jr. Invitational Moot Court Competition
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No full textWilliam K. Grubb '17 and Ryan K. Wallace '18 win the Chicago Bar Association National Moot Court Competition