Records, 1913-1926.

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Records, 1913-1926.

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Papers, 1913-1926, including correspondence, printed materials, membership rolls, newspaper clippings, and minutes. This collection, particularly the correspondence, documents the efforts of the Committee to solicit support from public officials, organize a county structure for volunteer coordinators, and develop national publicity about the lease system in Alabama. The newspaper clippings provide a brief overview of the political battle within 1920s state government over reform efforts. Prominent correspondents include Amelia Worthington Fisk, William C. Davis, William E. Fort, and Hugo Black.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971

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Hugo LaFayette Black (1886-1971) was a judge for the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 12, 1937; confirmed by the Senate on August 17, 1937; and received his commission on August 18, 1937. He assumed senior status on September 17, 1971, but his service was terminated soon thereafter, with his death on September 25, 1971. ...

Fisk, Amelia Worthington, 1890-1975.

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Fisk was active in the woman's suffrage movement in Alabama, and later worked for the abolition of the convict lease system, for birth control reform, and for the Equal Rights Amendment. From the description of Interview, 1975. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413513 ...

Davis, William A., active 1862-1864

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Alabama. Governor (1919-1923 : Kilby)

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State Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contract System (Birmingham, Ala.).

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The convict lease system was utilized in Alabama in various forms after the Civil War. The system consisted of leasing out convicts to private contractors who were then responsible for their welfare. Many convicts died from lack of care and overwork on farms, lumber camps and in mines. In the 1910s and 1920s there began to be widespread public opposition to what was considered to be inhumane treatment. The State Campaign Committee for the Abolishment of the Convict Contr...

Fort, William E. 1875-1942.

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