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Of the many Communist Fronts during the
Thirties, the International Labor Defense (1925-1946) was
one of the most active and flamboyant, devoted to victims
of class warfare. It quickly displaced the NAACP as
counsel for the Scottsboro Boys (see The Case of the Scottsboro
Boys) and dramatically publicized the affair with
meetings, parades, and fund-raisers across the country.
However, the ILD jeopardized its control of the
Scottsboro Case by a clumsy attempt to bribe Victoria
Price, the alleged victim who had persisted in her rape
charges, and was finally replaced by a united front of
socialists, clergymen, and civil libertarians, the
Scottsboro Defense Committee. Less active during and
after the Popular Front, the ILD was finally dissolved
after World War II.
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