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requesting a plan for how the organization would spend the money before he committed to donating it. To the fledgling NAACP, this was a vast sum, and Nash quickly worked to figure out how the money would be spent. He produced a lengthy report for
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and other advocacy around the nation towards an anti-lynching law. Bernstein writes that "perhaps the NAACP did its job too well"; Peabody may have thought his money would not be sufficient for the program. He did not ever donate $ 10,000.
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