Walter White
Walter White was an African American civil rights activist who led the NAACP for a quarter of a century after joining the organization in 1918. He was also a journalist, novelist, and essayist. Of multiracial descent, at times he passed as white to facilitate, and protect himself during, his investigations of lynchings and riots in the South. He worked with President Harry S. Truman on desegregating the armed forces after the Second World War, and under White’s leadership, the NAACP set up...
