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A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White
First published in 1948,
A Man Called White
is the autobiography of the famous civil rights activist Walter White during his first thirty years of service to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. White joined the NAACP in 1918 and served as its executive secretary from 1931 until his death in 1955. His recollections tell not only of his personal l
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392 pages
Published
February 1st 1995
by University of Georgia Press
(first published 1948)
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Several months ago information about an NAACP leader in our area who was "passing" as black came out, and as I was reading about her I came across a mention of this man, Walter White. The title is a play on his name, and the fact that he was so light-skinned that he sometimes "passed" as white in the south, often in conjunction with his work for the NAACP to investigate lynchings.
His work was much more than the lynching investigations, but it is often what he is remembered for now (I'm currentl ...more
His work was much more than the lynching investigations, but it is often what he is remembered for now (I'm currentl ...more
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He was an African American journalist, novelist, and essayist who became a spokesman for his community in the United States for almost a quarter of a century. He graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 (now Clark Atlanta University). In 1918 he joined the small national staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson,
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