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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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Photo of the inside of a wooden cage that served as living quarters for black and white convicts in a Georgia prison. Notes from Spivak on the back read, "Inside of convict cage at Camp No. 2, Sumter County chain gang - a few miles out of Americus,…

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Signed letter to all prison wardens explaining Spivak's visit and investigation.

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Journal clipping reviewing Spivak's fiction novel and explaining the prison conditions he encountered during his investigation

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NY Journal article on the prison conditions described in Spivak's novel.

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