ALT COLONEL HASKELL'S SECOND CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON RUSSIA. [underlined] Hoover (SECRET: TO BE SENT IN CIPHER TO MR. HOOVER, WASHINGTON, D.C.) Washington 5 November 1921 Paragraph one. Political situation stop Russia's readiness to acknowledge in principle pre war foreign debt in keeping with general policy of Government stop Lenin apparently has situation well in hand stop Speech of October eighteenth remarkably bold expression of intentions stop Admits former system requisition and taxation mistake stop Government now anxious repair mischief save peasants and hold their own jobs at any price stop Scarcely day passes without some new concession to private ownership and right to trade stop Soviet control complete and none to oppose it stop No sign serious division in ranks communist through obvious there must be some discontent at turn of affairs stop [full transcription at link]

ALT 1431 Henrietta Wood Plaintiff vs Zeb Ward Defendant U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio Declaration. Henrietta Wood the plaintiff complains of the defendant, Zeb Ward in a plea of trespass on the case For that whereas heretofore, viz on the tenth day of April in the year eighteen Hun- dred and Fifty three, at Cincinnati in the said District the said plaintiff was then and for several years previous thereto had been a free mulatto woman - residing in the city of Cincinnati in the state of Ohio, and in the said District and the said defendant together with one Rebecca Boyd and others whose names are to the plaintiff unknown - well knowing that the plaintiff was a free person of color but contriving and confederating to de- prive the plaintiff of her liberty, and to convey and sell her into slavery for life for their own gain and profit, did at Cincinnati, in said District on the day last aforesaid cause the plaintiff [full transcription at link]

ALT Cincinnati aforesaid and to be delivered to the said defendant in the state of Kentucky, and the said defendant well knowing that the plaintiff was a free woman and a resident of Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, forcibly and against her consent, kept her in slavery for the space of seven months, in the state of Kentucky, and afterwards, viz, at Frankfort in said District on the first day of January in the year eighteen Hun- dred and Fifty-Four-under a pretended sale delivered her to one William Pulliam, a slave trader, to be by the said Pulliam taken to the state of Mississippi and there sold again into slavery - and thereafter - viz - on the day and year last aforesaid at Frankfort in the said District the said Pulliam did forcibly and against her will and consent take the plaintiff to the state of Mississippi and then and there sold her into perpetual slavery to one Girard Brandan for a large sum of money, viz, the sum of One Thousand and Fifty Dollars, [full transcription at link]

ALT as a common field hand for the space of Fifteen years - that by reason of the said wrongful selling into slavery by the defendant as aforesaid, the plaintiff has been deprived of her time and the value of her labor for the space of Fifteen years and compelled to work for the said defendant, the said Pulliam and Brandan for said time - that she has been reduced to slavery and treated as a slave all that time and subjected to great hardships, abuse and oppression, and by reason of said wrongful removal to the state of Mississippi and Texas, and her said du- ress and imprisonment there, she was prevented from returning to her home in Cincinnati until the month of April in the year eighteen Hundred and Sixty-seven [full transcription at link]

ALT person of color residing in the State of Ohio, and will knowing that she had been kid- napped and brought to the said state of Kentucky, against her will, and to be sold as a slave, [illegible] forcibly received her as a slave, and kept her in slavery, and compelled her to work for him as a slave, and afterwards, viz, on the first day of Jan- uary in the year Eighteen Hundred & Fifty Four at Frankfort viz in said District the de- fendant well knowing she was free caused her to be sold as a slave to a Slave Trader to be taken to the states of Mississippi & Texas, and there held as a slave - that by reason of the said acts of the defendant the said plain- tiff was taken against her will to the state [full transcription at link]

ALT PART 1 - TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL APPLICANTS I, (First name) Martin (Middle name) Luther (Last name) King, Jr., a citizen of the United States, do hereby apply to the Department of State for a passport. MAIL PASSPORT TO STREET Waiting CITY___ STATE IN CARE OF (IF NECESSARY) DATE OF BIRTH (Month, day, year) Jan. 15, 1929 PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta, Ga. HEIGHT 5 FT. 7 IN. HAIR Black EYES Brown APPROXIMATE DATE OF DEPARTURE Oct. 27, 1961 VISIBLE DISTINGUISHING MARKS Scar on Back of Left Hand OCCUPATION Clergyman MY PERMANENT RESIDENCE (Street address, City, State) (If same as in mailing block, write "Same") 563 Johnson Ave N.E. Atlanta, Ga. [full transcription at link]

ALT PROPOSED TRAVEL PLANS TRAVELING BY ORGANIZED TOUR? [box] YES [checked box] NO PORT OF DEPARTURE New York NAME OF SHIP OR AIRLINE BOAC MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPARTURE SHIP [box] AIR [checked box] OTHER [box] RETURN [box] AIR [checked box] OTHER [box] APPROXIMATE DATE OF DEPARTURE Oct. 27, 1961 NUMBER OF PREVIOUS TRIPS ABROAD WITHIN LAST 12 MONTHS 2 PLEASE INDICATE WHETHER YOU EXPECT TO TAKE ANOTHER TRIP ABROAD [checked box] YES [box] NO; IF YES, WITHIN [box] YEAR [checked box] 2 YEARS [box] 5 YEARS PURPOSE OF TRIP Business PROPOSED LENGTH OF STAY one month LIST EACH COUNTRY TO BE VISITED England IN THE EVENT OF DEATH OR ACCIDENT NOTIFY NAME IN FULL Coretta S. King RELATIONSHIP Wife STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE 563 Johnson Ave. Atlanta, Ga. [full transcript at link]