Letter from C. S. Davis in Wichita, Kansas, to Judge Eugene W. Carter in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Davis criticizes segregationist policies in Alabama: "Segregation is worse than cancer, communism or letting some one slap your mother." He compares the state to a Soviet nation and also mentions pamphlets that his colleagues will be sending to African Americans in the South...
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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/1940 |
| Summary: | In the letter Davis criticizes segregationist policies in Alabama: "Segregation is worse than cancer, communism or letting some one slap your mother." He compares the state to a Soviet nation and also mentions pamphlets that his colleagues will be sending to African Americans in the South. The letter was written at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott trials. |
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