JESSE BLAYTON LETTER BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ATLANTA POLICE BRUTALITY CASE JIM CROW
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:4289984 | Modified Item: No |
| Provenance: Ownership History Not Available | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
Please email with any questions. Pages from a scrapbook with newspaper clippings and a letter. The letter is dated March 11, 1940 typed on Atlanta Chamber of Commerce letterhead, sent to George Willingham, a white attorney in Atlanta, thanking Willingham for legal aid rendered in a case of extreme police brutality towards a black teenager named Quintar South who was beaten and burned during interrogation- trying to get the teen to confess to stealing a basketball from the Clark Un...iversity gym. The letter is signed by J B Blayton, Atlanta businessman, accountant, civil rights activist, co-owner of Atlanta's first black nightclub and owner of Atlanta's first African-American owned and operated radio station. The news clippings relate to this disturbing case and mention other incidents of police brutality in the Jim Crow South. All pieces of paper are glued to the scrapbook pages.
