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- Collection: John L. Spivak and the Role of Investigative Journalism in Exposing Mass Incarceration as New Slavery
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Official Whipping Report from Georgia Penitentiary, 1930 (John L. Spivak Collection)
Official typed report listing punishments of prisoners, including names, dates, and reasons for punishment. Signed by the warden.
Newspaper clipping with poem
An image of a book review of Georgia Nigger (1932) by Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981 with a poem by L. N. J.
Letter from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Signed letter from Walter White of the NAACP to Mr. Forrest Bailey of the American Civil Liberties Union, on Spivak's investigative work.
Newspaper Clipping with Spivak Quote
A book review of Georgia Nigger (1932) by Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981 which includes quotes from John Spivak
Georgia Nigger (1932) by Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981
A work of fiction based in fact about the horrors of the prison system in the early twentieth century.
Convicts in a Georgia Chain Gang, with printer annotations, 1931
Photo of black convicts working as part of a Georgia chain gang in the early 1930s. Photo edited for publication in a newspaper. Printers notes on back.
"Seminole county (Ga.) warden in front of his county-supplied home at the convict camp," 1931
Photo of a Georgia warden standing in front of his home at the convict camp. Notes written by Spivak on back.
"Wooden cage with iron bar network in which are housed black and white convicts of the Seminole county (Ga.) camp," 1931
Photo of the prisoner housing at a Georgia prison. Notes written by Spivak on the back say, "Wooden cage with iron bar network in which are housed black and white convicts of the Seminole county (Ga.) camp."
Prisoner chained in iron collar in the Muscogee county, Georgia prison, 1931
Photo of a black prisoner in Georgia wearing an iron collar and sitting in the wooden cage that functioned as housing. Notes by Spivak on the back read, "Chained by neck and feet to iron cage: Muscogee county, Ga. near Columbus, Ga. This convict had…
Chain gang prisoners working on Georgia highway, with printer annotations, 1931
Photo of chain gang prisoners working on a Georgia highway. Printer's annotations, most likely from the "Daily Worker", show how the image was to be cropped for the newspaper. Notes from Spivak on the back read, "A Georgia chain gang at work on a…