Walter White (1893–1955), the NAACP's Assistant Secretary, resumed his field investigations for the NAACP in 1924, concentrating on lynchings and mob violence.  In December 1924 he was in Nashville, Tennessee, investigating the lynching of fifteen-year-old Sammie Smith.  This young man, who had become involved in a shooting, was abducted from the hospital in which he was chained to the bed and hanged.  The details of the case are preserved in White’s handwritten notebook and typed report.