Walter Francis White was an African American civil rights activist who helped lead the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1929 to 1955. He started out with the organization as an investigator in 1918. The focus of his exposés were mob violence and the pursuit of federal anti-lynching laws. Due to his blond hair and blue eyes, White was able to perform thorough investigations of lynching across the South without receiving the hostility that a more obviously Black reporter would. “Election Day in Florida” appeared in The Crisis magazine, the official publication of the NAACP, in January 1921 and details several acts of violence that took place during the previous year’s elections in the state of Florida.