Killing of Willie Hyter in Virginia
Incident
Willie Hyter (1891-1938), a stevedore and veteran, died in Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, Virginia. Hyter was a resident in a segregated section of a Veterans Administration facility, which was alleged to have a history of discrimination and brutality against its Black patients. The NAACP complained that Hyter died from injuries incurred after being beaten three nights in a row by an attendant. The VA claimed that Hyter’s complaints of abuse were the result of his psychosis, and that he died of an old syphilitic ulcer of the bladder.
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