Sammie Lee Williams – The Birmingham News Article, “Grand Jury ‘No Bills’ Two Persons Accused of Recent Slayings”

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January 7, 1950 article from The Birmingham News reporting that a Jefferson County grand jury returned a no-bill in the case of M. A. Weeks, the Birmingham streetcar conductor accused of fatally shooting Sammie Lee Williams. The article states that Williams was shot following a dispute over segregated seating on the streetcar and notes that two other passengers were also wounded. The article also reports a no-bill in an unrelated homicide case considered during the same grand jury session.

Archivist Note: The version preserved in the research file does not contain publication metadata. A separately retrieved Newspapers.com copy confirms that the clipping appeared in The Birmingham News on November 29, 1949, page 4, under the headline “Gunshot Wound—Negro Dies of Trolley Conductor’s Bullet.” The Newspapers.com copy was used to establish descriptive metadata and is not treated as the archival original.