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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.

Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, Deep South, Georgia, Human rights, Journalism, Labor, Mass incarceration, Muckraking, New Slavery, Prison reform, Racial slurs, Socialism, Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981, Violation, Workers' rights

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

Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, Deep South, Georgia, Human rights, Journalism, Labor, Law, Mass incarceration, Muckraking, New Slavery, Newsclipping, Prison reform, Racial slurs, Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981, Violation, Workers' rights

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

Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, Deep South, Georgia, Human rights, Journalism, Labor, Mass incarceration, Muckraking, New Slavery, Prison reform, Racial slurs, Socialism, Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981, Violation, Workers' rights

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.

Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, Deep South, Georgia, Human rights, Journalism, Labor, Law, Mass incarceration, Muckraking, New Slavery, Newsclipping, Prison reform, Racial slurs, Socialism, Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981, Violation, Workers' rights