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Newspaper Clipping, Do Away With 'Pay to Play' Say SXSW Attendees
This newspaper clipping highlights the struggle between SXSW as a business and as an advocate for artists. Since SXSW functions as a starting ground for artists, some advocate that artists should be paid for their work while others advocate that…
Photograph of FBI Agents During Freedom Summer Search
The image is a photograph clipping that was published in the New York Journal-American covering the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. The photograph depicts two FBI agents searching for clues in the area where a burned…
Map of Freedom Summer Murders
The image is a photograph clipping that was published in the New York Journal-American covering the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. The image is a map that shows where the car was found and where the bodies were…
Photograph of Burned Car of Missing Civil Rights Workers
This image was published in the New York Journal-American covering the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. The image depicts the car of the workers being towed, which was found burned in a ditch.
The caption reads: "(JX4)…
The caption reads: "(JX4)…
Photograph of Police with Body of Missing Civil Rights Worker
The image is a photograph clipping that was published in the New York Journal-American covering the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. The photo depicts four white men carrying a black trash bag with a body later found to be…
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 Georgia Prison Commissioner, 1931
Signed letter to all prison wardens explaining Spivak's visit and investigation.
New York Journal on "Georgia Prison Camp Horrors," 1932
NY Journal article on the prison conditions described in Spivak's novel.
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,…