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Photograph of convicts working in unison on a Georgia chain gang. Prisoners wearing black-and-white striped jumpsuits stand in a line with their backs to the camera. They are hunched over at the waist. This photograph was included in John Spivak's novel Georgia Nigger. Spivak's original caption notes that "rhythmic movement is necessary to avoid injuring one another while bending or rising."By including such documentary photographs in his novel, Spivak hoped to alert the American public to the brutal conditions on Georgia's chain gangs.
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![[African American men, prisoners, with two mules working on roadbed(?) between electrical and telephone poles in Georgia]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/d93f3654bed66163a46b26a9576cfaa0e4ae5d0b.png "[African American men, prisoners, with two mules working on roadbed(?) between electrical and telephone poles in Georgia]")
