While some of its leaders are familiar, Walter White — NAACP head from 1929 to 1955 and one of America’s most influential Black men — has been all but forgotten. This film traces the ...
White's story is told in Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP, directed by Michelle Smalley and written and produced by Rob Rapley. The documentary premieres on the PBS series American ...
Wells sent 1,000 copies of her pamphlet to Arkansas. Walter White, the 27-year-old assistant secretary of the NAACP who would later go on to lead the organization, also worked to correct the ...
KENNETH MACK, PROFESSOR OF LAW: Walter White makes the NAACP into a national player. KIDADA WILLIAMS, HISTORIAN: The NAACP and Walter White laid the foundation for the movement that we see in the ...
They all played prominent roles in the NAACP, the preeminent civil rights organization of the era. But Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America and the ...
Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and ...