The Spotlight on Ohio's Black Crime

Cleveland: Charles Margolian, 1930. Good plus.. 127pp. Illustrated. Contemporary red printed wrappers. Light wear, remnants of older tape on spine. Text tanned, a few leaves with small chips or tears. A scarce work decrying the horrible fire which struck the penitentiary on Columbus, Ohio in 1930, killing over three hundred inmates. The work is dedicated "to the memory of the unfortunates who had to give up their lives on the fiery altar of neglect in order to awaken the State of Ohio to needed reforms." Illustrated throughout, including photoreproductions with captions such as "Convicts looking upon the roasted bodies of their fellow inmates on the night of the fire," and "Negro convicts carrying out debris." Fairly scarce institutionally, with the majority of copies found unsurprisingly in Ohio libraries.