The killing of Elbert Williams in June 1940 had possible implications that extended all the way to Washington, DC, the nation’s capitol. Walter White, the national NAACP secretary, by 1940 had been personally campaigning for a federal anti-lynching law for nearly two decades. White, a blue-eyed, blond, white-skinned American ...
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