Incarcerated mine workers in their sleeping quarters in Birmingham in 1907. The vast majority of convict-lease workers in Alabama were African American. These men were leased to a mining company by the Birmingham City Jail.
Incarcerated Mine Workers, 1907
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Courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library Archives
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