National Affairs: Jeffersonian Justice

The quail shooting season in Alabama lasts from Nov. 20 to Feb. 20. Editors and Negroes are shot all year round.

Into Birmingham's Jefferson County jail last week walked an agitated family. One member of it was Nell Williams, daughter of a prominent lawyer. Last summer, she was riding with her sister Augusta and another girl near Birmingham when a Negro jumped on their car's running board, made them drive into the woods, threatened to "get even for what your race has done to mine." He then shot and killed Miss Williams' sister and...

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