A documentary on former NAACP leader Walter White and a discussion about the NAACP’s legacy. This week on American Black Journal: Preview the American Experience documentary titled "Forgotten ...

Premieres Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America and the leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955 ...

Walter White speaks at an NAACP Rally in Washington DC June 29, 1947 Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library ...

"Walter White was the best lobbyist for the NAACP, ever," says one expert in Forgotten Hero. Other commentators observe, "He ...

For proof, look no further than Walter Francis White, who was born on this day, July 1, in 1893. White ushered the NAACP into the Civil Rights era, serving as its leader more than 20 years, from ...

When Walter White died in 1955, one obit called him “a Negro by choice.” The way White saw it, it was the only choice an honorable person could make. The blond, blue-eyed White was, by … ...

A. J. Baime recounts the extraordinary life of the NAACP's Walter White who wrote late in life: “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are ...

When Walter White died in 1955, one obit called him “a Negro by choice.” The way White saw it, it was the only choice an honorable person could make. The blond, blue-eyed White was, by his ...

Walter F. White, as one newspaper article would later put it, ... Poppy, visited Tokyo as part of a tour of 14 foreign capitals when he was secretary of the NAACP. Bettmann Archive.

Harry Truman, left, Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter White on June 29, 1947, the day Truman became the first American president to address the NAACP. (Abbie Rowe, National Park Service / Harry S ...

WHITE: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP Kenneth Robert Janken, . . New Press, $29.95 (477pp) ISBN 978-1-56584-773-6 ...

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 civil ...