Letter from Mrs. I. W. Elliott in Talladega, Alabama, to John H. Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
In the letter Mrs. Elliott asks Bankhead not to support the proposed selective service legislation, which would take "young men from the farms": "It is as great a battle to provide food for the nation, as to protect the nation." The Selective Service Act, which required men from...
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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/3835 |