Framing Alexander
In October 2022, I set out with some of my local and national colleagues to advocate a name change to the juvenile courthouse in Media, Pennsylvania.
Currently, that courthouse is named for the late Judge W. Roger Fronefield. Since October our alliance has been building a case to have the courthouse named for Alexander McClay Williams, a Black boy who was falsely accused of killing a white woman in 1931 at The Glen Mills School in Glen Mills, PA. Fronefield, a white judge, sentence 16-year-old Williams to death in an electric chair. The boy died or was killed or was murdered (pick one or all three) on June 8, 1931.
(In the picture above, Alexander McClay Williams faces the alleged weapon used to kill Vida Robare in 1930. Former district attorney William J. McCarter holds the weapon.)
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Fighting for Alexander McClay Williams
We had momentum to make history. We had the front page. We had hope. And then ignorance interrupted the process. Jealousy contaminated the joy. Listen to the Sour Lemon podcast below.
