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"Poets Corner" column from the Birmingham World, featuring poems by Jeremiah Reeves, Jr.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In 1952 the Grand Jury of Montgomery County charged Reeves with rape, and he was electrocuted in 1958. Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed a crowd protesting his death a week after the execution. For other images of Reeves, see http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/photo/searchterm/Jeremiah%20Reeves/order/nosort
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Text
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600 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1953 December Circa
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130