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Title
99 years : John Taft Roseburough at 19, sentenced to 99 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Brownswood, Texas, July 9, 1952
Creator
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Contributor
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Chalmers, Allan Knight, 1897-
Tate, U.(Ulysses) Simpson
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Text
"The "Committee of 100" has pledged to raise funds needed at once for the defense of John Taft Roseburough and for other deprived of their liberty because of racial discrimination."--Back cover.
Title from cover.
[New York, NY] :, [Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers, "Committee of 100"]
["Committee of 100"].
Type
text
Format
8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb2125064j
Language
English
Subject
Law reports, digests, etc
Twentieth century
History
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Southern States
Place
Southern States

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