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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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"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."
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…
Clipping from Providence R.I. Journal, 1932
Journal clipping reviewing Spivak's fiction novel and explaining the prison conditions he encountered during his investigation
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.
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.
Letter from Georgia Prison Commissioner, 1931
Signed letter to all prison wardens explaining Spivak's visit and investigation.
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.
Living conditions for black and white convicts in a Georgia prison, 1931
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,…
New York Journal on "Georgia Prison Camp Horrors," 1932
NY Journal article on the prison conditions described in Spivak's novel.