Letter to the Alabama Legislature from William E. Fort, chairman of the Statewide Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System.
In the letter, Fort asks that a date be set for the end of the convict lease system during the current gubernatorial administration. (The legislature had set a date just after the next governor would take office, which some feared would result in an indefinite delay.) Fort stresses that the Committe...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/12341 |