Contemporary unsigned carbon copy of a two and one-half page Typed Letter to M. M. Deschamps, Superintendent of Police (for the railroad company) about an Incident at the Train Station in Florence on September 11,1946, involving African American Soldiers.
(1944). Letter dated September 13, 1946. 28 cm. Carbon copy on thin Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company letterhead stationery. Substantial chipping around edges (no loss of text) on first leaf. Our unnamed Captain of Police reports on an incident which began when around 200 African American soldiers were changing trains..... More