Newberry Library - Stuart, Jesse, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1939-1973

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Open book Stuart, Jesse, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1939-1973

Title Stuart, Jesse, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1939-1973

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1939-1973

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Aug. 30th 1939
Riverton, Ky.
Jack Conroy, Esq.,
The New Anvil,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Jack Conroy:

If you can lift a paragraph or two from this story without injury to the story, you have my permission to do so. It is entirely too long. It is a story but few magazines would dare publish and several writers would not care to write it.
You are a Southerner, so am I. We know that in the South, White men have had woods colts by Colored women; Whereas, on the other side, if a black man assaults a white woman - you know what happens. it is my belief that the white should remain white and the black remain black. If I were a Negro, I wouldn't want a drop of white blood in me. We (the Whites) have certainly been unfair to the Negro women don't you think?
My story is based on facts. You can believe it or not - but it is. The women lived in the rock cliff as I wrote in the story. I didn't know whether to make a story or a short novelette

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 30 Folder 1525

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL1M50I

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