{"value"=>"<p>This series is comprised of papers covering the years that Williams worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), including three scrapbooks. The first subseries Special Attorney, New York, 1945-1950, covers Williams' work with Thurgood Marshall and the legal department of the NAACP. It is comprised chiefly of legal briefs on a variety of cases as well as a substantial collection of clippings and some correspondence and testimony relating to Walter Lee Irvin's appeal of his death sentence for the murder and rape of a woman in Groveland, Florida (Groveland Case). Marshall argued the appeal, winning Irvin a sentence of life imprisonment which was later commuted. The second subseries, Western Region Director, California, 1951-1959, is comprised of press releases, reports, correspondence, and ephemera from the 1957 Freedom Fund Dinner.</p>"}