Walter F. White:  “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”

Essential Quotes

“The Department of Justice in Washington may lay claim to a 100 per cent performance in at least one branch of its activities—the evasion of cases involving burning questions of Negro rights.”

“The crime of lynching was not even within the range of the department’s vision.”

“The attorney general continues his offensive against crime—except crimes involving the deprivation of life and liberty and citizenship to Negroes.”