SMITH ACT TRIAL

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{"value"=>"<p>The SMITH ACT TRIAL series documents Davis's trial for sedition, his imprisonment at Terre-Haute and Pittsburgh, and his challenge of racial segregation in federal prisons in the United States. It consists of legal correspondence between Davis, his lawyers and supporters on the one hand, and the Bureau of Prison, the Parole Board and the warden at the Terre-Haute penitentiary on the other, in addition to briefs, affidavits, petitions, court rulings and printed matter.</p>"}
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  1. Legal Documents
  2. Prison Desegregation, Amnesty Effort, Parole
  3. Pittsburgh Sedition Trial
  4. Desegregation of Prisons
  5. Clippings