In 1942, the U. S. Justice Department informed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its counsel, Thurgood Marshall, that it was closing its investigation of the murder of Elbert Williams. Mr. Marshall, seemingly not expecting this turn of events, replied that admittedly while direct evidence was scarce, there ...
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