Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, 1939-1940, 1949-1953
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … NAAGP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND SUBJECT FILE J BOX
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … po By os COMTE DE SAINT QUENTIN FRENCH EMBASSY WASHINGTCN D OC WE WISH TC PROTEST VIGOROUSLY IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY AGAINST RAID ON Lig COILITTTEE CAUSIN INEXCUSABLE INTERFERENCE WITH CARE…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … Peonage in Georgia An investigators report on forced labor in Warren County Georgia in 1937 published to expose conditions marking many parts of the agricultural South Na newspaper reports broke in September…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA 2 Most of the cotton was picked at 30c per hundred During my visit 40c and 50c were being offered on some plantations 3 There will be no investigation…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA Each year as the cotton ripens men women and children are lured coerced forced or driven into the cotton fields to pick cotton at the price set by the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA of the men employed in agriculture Nearly 97 of the cultivated acreage is in cotton farms In this Black Belt county cotton takes precedence over every other product The…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA is generally held that the conditions under which Negro tenants and sharecroppers live are so terrible that it is with difficulty that planters now secure families to work their…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA In an effort to secure sufficient pickers farmers in Glascock went into the adjoining Warren County Offering prices double what the planters in Warren were offering they stood a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA the public square and began their lessons in patriotism to Warren County Negroes The city fathers and the obliging officers of the law apparently knew what was going to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … PEONAGE IN GEORGIA for fear of death He with as many as could secure means left the county Others had not the means and went to the cotton fields The vigilante placed…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … G Baker Pearle President inneti Branch NAACP 1225 Myrtle Avenue Cincinnatl BDhio Dear Mr Pearle x a PL OIE QP RD RSE aa A we LA8VE JOUT JLetielr 01 Tae Lath To…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … 3 AY 5 8 Ny 2 5 i a oI To 4 43 5 Sa 3 on sn E t a a 4 Oo yg t af oY rd QO y i…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … CBaker PearlePres Offi Cer s C B ik NATIONAL HEADGUARTRRS LrRcLRrd L Ya rc 65 FirTH AVE EW YORK ITY DR B F EXXXXXXX warion m wusearo see National Association For Advancement…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … Chapter Onessse FEST Ro 0 PRUOAAIAUMSE TWaaES fA TYRE WLAN BES SEES anlES didi A KIEG Eo HAN Pe Ty FE tw i 54 5 ah 8 RB LE 4 oo 615…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wile Warren too was blossod with a heavy crops But cotten prices were falling and they determined to harvest their erop as cheaply as possibles They offered wuges of 30 and 40…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … a A truc driver coming fron Clascock for a load of pickers was Jerked from his seat pumelled threatened with an axehandle end admonished to git out and stay outs Ne lefts…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wie The conduct of the mob nade clear that they had no intention of acknowledging the usual reasons for imporition of forced labor it was not a question of giving work to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … ale ways the romantic heritage of the antebellum South decadent and ime pressivees Tarren is cone of the oldest counties in the state and its aze is evident as one journeys through…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … ia wr Pa master ouewerop farming Generations of cotton crops yoer after year have left a onoe fertile and generous soll spent and exhausted Once men produced a bale of cotton to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … 7es is reported that they supported Talmadges Antiellow Deal UrasseRoots L BE a i anh oh fd in Macon 1n 1838 Convention he two fanllics own thousands of acres of the best…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wl he were chattel sleeve as if the austicueer had sold hin on he blocks owe planters call the custom with painful honesty Huy ing the niggers If the viotin of this…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wie Counties in the cotton belt and our story ir importent only becouse it can foeus the light of public indignation en the ruming 80res of injustice whish alflict the witle Souths…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … Tan ee Ba PR Bd apiaded ies on Theor shares 3 oop ont Ee ea ahah 2 fnelude gi ple CONCISE QAYTOOULOLS JOT QIEaNLEe DIrCasulre On on oe il a le Yap…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … Chapter Two Of the numerous iustences of violation of oivil end eooroule ilberties below the NasonDixan line surprisingly few have found their way into courts Federal and state statutes cover most of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wi room shacks in decay md 2isrepalrs All were omod by Zpabb who thus maintained control almost wmchallengeds For those who opened thelr mouths or their minds te outsiders wore likely to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … ode of Labor Convention meeting in Tampa in Novembers William Green sent wires demanding an investigations Federal probers started te work ind on May 25 1837 belore the United States distriet court…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … lym 3 He told me to get in hie car with him 889d we drove back to the woods cmp On the way he sald he was going to make me tell…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … all this testimony and categorical denial of every eharge for lve long dayse They deliberated one short hours Their verdict was Miot Gui ye hy There 1s a machirery which perpetustes the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … CHAPTER THREE lore hi iy other epidosde in the history of southern struggle for civil liberties the case of Paul Peacher town marshal of Earle Arlen sas illustrates the points whioh must…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … les a wiligh ands ny a i How in November snd sectist Joe Jones were arrested on suepioione He Clay East a former president of the wior was Jailed for selekcepinge ye…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wle Peacher was accused by nine Fegroes all striking cotton choppers of false errests He had they cleimed arrested them on faked charges of vagrancy obtained their conviction from Te 8 Mitchell…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … the sharecropper whom an Jrkensas mob spirited away was a5 dead but sefely in custody Note the same nans report at the height of tension precipitated by planter reaction in the cotton…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … ode y rey own ront porches Neither Peacher nor Mitchell made any effort to ascertain these factse Winfield Andersen one of the strikers described his arrests Poacher drove up he sald and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wl county a certain amount of income and nobody suffered except the man convicted However in this case Peacher did not even go through the formality of paying the county for his…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … wT w dE established itself as the leading Southern union listed in the ledger books of the battle for economic and civil rightss Poachers conviction opened the deer if only a crack…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Abraham Abramowitz Grace Carlson John Edelman Mary Donovan Hapgood Sidney Hertzberg Joseph Jacobs Howard Kester Margaret Marshall James W Miller Morris Shapiro Katherine Terrill Ashley L Totten Louis Yagoda David…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … 551 EES INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAFENSE MIDWEST REGIONAL OFFICE Room 609610192 North Clark Street r BOB WIRTZ CHICAGO ILLINOIS Telephone Dearborn 1926 Acting Secretary FOR DEMOCRACY NATIONAL OFFICERS HON VITO MARCANTONIO President WILLIAM…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … 1 i y 3 eS o 4 de Ud 3 aN 0 of or C oped L pad 5 tf SE 4 or ey by pS 5 Is lt U o a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 39 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … July 17 1940 Mr Davis Lee Editor 2095 West Broad 8t Savannah Ga Dear Mr Lee Your letter of May 6 concerning Mr Leroy Linzy and the peonage case in Effingham County…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, … July 161940 Attention Mr Marshall RW
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1939
About this Item
Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Subject File, 1929-1968; Labor; Peonage; Georgia, 1939-1940, 1949-1953
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Created / Published
- 1939 - 1940
Headings
- - Law--United States
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - Segregation--United States
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
- - African Americans--Education
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
- - African Americans--Political activity
- - Criminal law--United States
- - Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
- - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- - Discrimination in education--United States
- - Discrimination in employment--United States
- - Discrimination in housing--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
- - Discrimination in the military--United States
- - Educational law and legislation--United States
- - Election law--United States
- - Housing--Law and legislation--United States
- - Labor laws and legislation--United States
- - Recreation centers--Law and legislation--United States
- - Suffrage--United States
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Subject File, 1929-1968
- mss65570, box 107
Source Collection
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
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- Manuscript Division
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- image
- online text
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- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration
- Discrimination in Education
- Discrimination in Employment
- Discrimination in Housing
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Discrimination in the Military
- Education
- Educational Law and Legislation
- Election Law
- Housing
- Labor Laws and Legislation
- Law
- Law and Legislation
- Legal Status, Laws, Etc
- Manuscripts
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States