Editing Moore v. Dempsey (section)

==The investigation==
[[File:Walter F White.jpg|thumb|Walter F. White]]
The [[NAACP]] sent its assistant secretary, [[Walter F. White]], to investigate the violence in October 1919. White, who was of mixed-race and blonde, used his appearance to pass for white when it was useful to his investigations of lynching and riots. He was granted credentials from the ''[[Chicago Daily News]],'' which aided him in obtaining an interview with Governor Brough.

White was able to interview both whites and blacks in Phillips County, but had to cut his visit short after hearing rumors that he had been discovered as a person of color. White published his findings in the ''Daily News'', the ''[[Chicago Defender]]'' and ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'', as well as the NAACP's own magazine ''[[The Crisis]],'' reporting on the high number of fatalities among blacks and the lack of government prosecution of their deaths.