| Summary: | In the first letter, written September 6, 1944, Craft complains about African American passengers on city buses in Mobile: "A condition has been in effect here in Mobile since the War began...of some of the drivers of the City Lines allowing the negroes to fill the rear end of the Bus, continuing on up the aisle." He has noticed that segregation signs ("White Passengers Take Front Seats, Colored Passengers Rear Seats") no longer hang in the buses, and he believes that bus drivers are violating a state law when they do not enforce strict separation of the races. In the second letter, written September 7, 1944, Sparks explains that there is no state law requiring segregation on buses, and he adds that there are not many formal segregation laws of any sort in Alabama: "Our segregation laws are few, and apply largely to such matters as schools, asylums, penitentaries [sic] and things directly under the control of the State. Of course, we have what is known as the Jim Crow, or segregation law on railroads. This has been in existence for many years."
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