What racial violence did Walter White address in The Fire in the Flint?

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The Weary Blues cover — Harlem Renaissance Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for Langston Hughes's *The Weary Blues* (1926), a book of experimental poetry.

In his 1924 novel The Fire in the Flint, Walter White addressed the brutal reality of lynching in the American South.1

As a prominent civil rights activist and executive secretary of the NAACP, White dedicated his career to exposing and campaigning against this form of racial violence. The novel serves as a fictionalized account of such atrocities, reflecting the broader climate of terror and systemic violence faced by Black communities during the era of the Harlem Renaissance, a period also marked by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and widespread "race riots". Through his writing and on-the-spot investigations, White sought to challenge the public indifference toward these acts and advocate for federal intervention.12