You can find your A-Number and Department of State (DOS) Case ID on your immigrant data summary, USCIS Immigrant Fee handout, or immigrant visa stamp. Your A-Number is the letter âAâ followed by 8 or 9 numbers (such as A012345678). Your DOS Case ID is 3 letters followed by 9 or 10 numbers (for example, XYZ0123456789).
Patterson, California, in Stanislaus county, is 13 miles SW of Modesto, California (center to center) and 43 miles E of San Jose, California. The city is included in the Modesto metropolitan area. As of the year 2000 census, 11,606 people lived in Patterson.
Patterson, his three friends and five others were grabbed, questioned, tied up to one another and dumped onto the back of a flatbed truck. They were taken to Scottsboro, the Jackson County seat, twenty-one miles east. The nine arrestees were about to become The Scottsboro Boys. THE CASE. It was early spring in the South, March 25th 1931, in the second year of the Great Depression. Many men and women rode the rails then and this day was no exception. As the freight train pulled out of Chattanooga, headed west for Georgia, Alabama and Memphis, it already contained several hoboes..