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Image of the cover of the pamphlet "On the Chain Gang." The cover features a photograph of inmates working on a chain gang. They wear striped uniforms.Journalist John Spivak wrote the pamphlet "On the Chain Gang" for International Pamphlets, a series of propaganda tracts published by the Communist Party. Spivak's investigations into Georgia's chain gangs provided the basis for his novel Georgia Nigger (1932), which exposed the system's abuses and contributed to its reform.
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  1. Chain Gangs
  2. Communist Party Of America
  3. Convict Labor
  4. Georgia
  5. Pamphlets
  6. Prisoners

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