The Deathblow to Jim Crow covers Gellman's focuses on the National Negro Congress in multiple cities; Chicago, Illinois, where they allied with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to gain benefits for both white and black workers in the labor industries. In Richmond, Virginia, they worked with its youth affiliate, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, to increase the amount of pay tobacco workers received and to improve sanitation through organized strikes. In Washington, D.C., the focus was on fighting police brutality and lynchings, in New York, where the organization's headquarters would move, and in Columbia, South Carolina, which would become the precursor state of activism in