The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-10-13
Exposes Treatment
OF Negroes In Prison

state lost to fundamental justice and
humanity. It was chosen because il
is fairly representative of the Caro-
inas. Florida, Alabama-the whole
far-flung Black Belt Nor is the
whole south as pictured here. There
are many counties where conditions
are infinitely better, and too many
counties where they are infinitely
worse "
Official records of these fortunes
are reproduced in the hook Among
these official records is one from
Clarke County showing so conyiets
punished by restricted movement in
one month.
10 Put In Stocks
Another official record from Mad
ison County shows 10 eonyiets pun
ished in stocks in one month. Death
certificates show that in Clarke Coun-
ty George Johnson died February
%. 1881 from T. B.; that Charlie
higgins died in Pulaski County four
days after arriving in Camp; that
George Neal died in Chatham County
a few days after he had complained
of being swelled all over" and was
unable to get medicine, to the Prison
Commissioners
Notes
Among the pathetic scrawled notes
sent by the conviets to the Prison
Commissioner reproduced in the
book are one from Henry Aliur, Nc
Duffa County:
thomson Ga Ag 10 1881
Mr. e l. Rainy
dear 81 am Ritting you as to Lect
you hear / am not So well But i am
asking you to come down hear at
once pies Sir and dear Sir If you
cant dome down hear Will you pies
Sir transfur me to Calhane county I
am not gecting alon ehear at all i
gifts have nuft to Eat and don't gect
no walter to drink hardly But wish
you will come / got From Five to
Eaight and | want to try to make
it So don't anser this Letter it Fran
henry aliur (scrawl indistinct in last
name) pies Sir don't anser it Bee case
they mint Kill me Bee for you gect
hear
Your TRULY henry aliur
(scrawl indistinct)
don't orders this letter
don't write me Back
and one from Willie Frank Little,
McDuffa County, which reads in part :.
land Being Beat on that account i
am asking you please transfer me
where can Make my time / am
Willing to make tuble time any where
Else But here judge you can find my
Revkord amt give no trouble this
Willie Little this is the Meanest place
i ever Ben in prison my crime Was
committed here and | am treated
Bad May the lord Reach your heart
and come and transfer If good peoples
like you don't take this in hands i
don't know Wathd Will Become of us
please come or send doctor a re-
ports 1T to the inspector it seem to
Make it Worse the inspector told me
to see the Doctor But don't no Doc
tor come here please have Merry on
me Any Where you place Me I Believe
VIII fair Better than am Begin
for Mercy just as We would Be at
the judg Ment day please Remember
! me thank you
Willie frank little
Mcduffia chang gang
thomson Ga
Half of Georgia Niger" shows
how chain gang terrors are used by
1.-The white mans law" as Spivak calls
} it, to keep both whites, but chiefly
Negroes in a form of peonage. The
story of share-croppers and poems is
: wildly told.
In reference to conditions such as
: are pictured in Georgia Niger" for.
: mer Governor Hugh NJ. Dorsey oil
| Georgia said: ITO me it seems thai
we stand indicted as people before
the world. If the conditions indi
Gated by these charges should con
tinue. both God and man would justly
I condemn Georgia more severely thar
: man and God condemned Belgium
. and Leopold for the Congo atroc