While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

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 ...

Witness the story of civil rights hero Walter White – one of the most influential Black men in mid-century America and leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, yet one of the least known figures in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...