Walter White: Mr. NAACPWalter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to invest |
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Contents
Becoming Black | 1 |
Witness for the Prosecution | 29 |
Ambitions | 57 |
Socializing and Civil Rights in the Harlem Renaissance | 89 |
A Crooked Path to Power | 129 |
A Hard Decade | 161 |
Walter Eleanor and Franklin The Federal Antilynching Campaign 19331940 | 199 |
Radicals Liberals and Labor The NAACP in the New Deal and the Great Depression | 233 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Walter White: Mr. NAACP |
| Author | Kenneth Robert Janken |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, annotated |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0807857807, 9780807857809 |
| Length | 477 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage Biography & Autobiography / Political |
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