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- "Who Is the State of Alabama?"
- 1923
- Leaflet issued by the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System, explaining why the campaign has failed thus far: "No successful effort was made to develop a comprehensive system of employing convicts then...
- 2009-09-30
- Letter from Jessie D. Neill in Albany, Alabama, to Mrs. Priestly Toulmin, secretary of the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System.
- 1923-06-02
- In the letter, Mrs. Neill states that "the President of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs has been instructed to appoint a committee to visit the mines in which convict labor is employed." She tells Mrs. Toulmin that "the visit is to be made...
- 2009-09-30
- Letter from Mary T. Jeffries in Birmingham, Alabama, to William E. Fort.
- 1923-06-28
- Jeffries was president of the Alabama Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In the letter she mentions that the W.C.T.U. has been an opponent of convict leasing since Julia Tutwiler "brought the abuses of the system to the attention of our...
- 2009-09-30
- List of the state and local organizations that support an end to the convict lease system.
- 1923-07-12
- The list was compiled by the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System. Among the organizations listed are the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, the Alabama League of Women Voters, and the Alabama Woman's...
- 2009-09-30
- Flier for a "Mass Meeting" at the Community Park Theatre in Eufaula, Alabama.
- 1923-07-12
- At the meeting Judge William E. Fort will speak about the abolishment of the "Convict Contract System." The program is "Endorsed by the Federated Clubs of the State, W.C.T.U., Patriotic Clubs, League of Women Voters, and every man or woman who...
- 2009-09-30
- Letter from William E. Fort in Birmingham, Alabama, to the chairmen of the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System.
- 1923-07-21
- In the letter Fort discusses the adoption of the Long resolution in the state legislature, which directed that "no legislation regarding the convict lease system be considered during the present session." Fort believes that "the powers that be in...
- 2009-09-30
- Letter from William E. Fort of the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System in Birmingham, Alabama, to the members of the Alabama Legislature.
- 1923-09-10
- In the letter Fort states that members of the committee "are not sentimentalist," nor are they "influenced by union labor." Rather, their sole interest is the "welfare of our State" and the belief that "convicts should be treated sensibly and...
- 2009-09-30