Oliver, C. Herbert, fl. 1963 Document on Human Rights in Alabama, The Willie Coleman Case

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GLC#
GLC09641.12-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
1963
Author/Creator
Oliver, C. Herbert, fl. 1963
Title
Document on Human Rights in Alabama, The Willie Coleman Case
Place Written
Birmingham, Alabama
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 35.4 cm, Width: 25.7 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One document regarding the case of Willie Coleman of Alabama. Text reviews the instance by which Coleman was arrested by policemen as a suspect in a robbery and after turning himself into the police was beaten. The author of the letter, Rev. C. Herbert Oliver recounts the tension during and after the trial by the policemen. Once the verdicty was delivered as "not guilty," one officer E. H. Goodwin insisted a witness, David Tate, lied about where Willie Coleman was during the night of the robbery.

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