Sammie Lee Williams – The Birmingham News Article, “Assault Charge Made Against Bus Operator, Passenger After Row”

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November 22, 1949 article from The Birmingham News reporting that police obtained warrants charging both Mody A. Weeks and Sammie Lee Williams with assault with intent to murder following the streetcar shooting. The article states that Williams remained hospitalized in serious condition, notes that Weeks had been placed under bond, identifies two additional passengers wounded by gunfire, and summarizes Weeks’s claim that he acted in self-defense after a confrontation that began when Williams sat in the section reserved for white passengers.