Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1942 Library of Congress. The civil rights movement gave rise to an extraordinary array of ...

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 rights ...

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 ...