Download or read book No More Social Lynchings written by Robert W. Ikard and published by Providence House Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 25, 1946, in Columbia, Tennessee, a minor incident led to the first race riot in the United States after World War II, fomenting national outrage and involvement of numerous interested parties: Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, the NAACP, the Communist Party, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Legal resolution of the Columbia riot at Mink Slide resulted in death, destruction, and surprising trial verdicts.