 And what that means is that the NAACP hired him to do three things. His job was to investigate the lynchings of black people and report that back to the organization, which was trying to push for an anti-lynching law, federal legislation. So their job was to try to generate legislation to do something about the ills of black folks. So he would investigate these crimes. His second job was to sign people up for NAACP memberships and to register black folks to vote.