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Albert Pillsbury to NAACP Secretary Mary White Ovington

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Creator:Pillsbury, Albert E. (Albert Enoch), 1849-1930
Title:Albert Pillsbury to NAACP Secretary Mary White Ovington
Date:1910 July 26
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Letter from attorney Albert Pillsbury to NAACP Secretary Mary White Ovington dated July 26, 1910, regarding Pink Franklin, a black South Carolina sharecropper accused of murder. Pillsbury suggests that the defense appeal to Martin F. Ansel, Governer of South Carolina, for leniency.

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Types:Letters (correspondence)
Subjects:Pillsbury, Albert E. (Albert Enoch), 1849-1930 | Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951 | Ansel, Martin F. (Martin Frederick), 1850-1945 | Franklin, Pink | African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina | African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century | African American civil rights workers--Massachusetts--Boston | Women civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York | Lawyers--Massachusetts--Boston | Discrimination in justice administration--South Carolina | Race discrimination--South Carolina | Discrimination--South Carolina | Trials (Murder)--South Carolina | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Boston (Mass.)
Collection:With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Institution:Library of Congress
Contributors:Library of Congress | "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection (Library of Congress)
Online Publisher:[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress | 2004
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Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.

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Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection.

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