Walter White was the foremost spokesman for African Americans for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931–55) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He waged a long and ultimately successful campai
Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Janken, associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, used the Library's NAACP records in the Manuscript Division as a major resource for the book, which is the first biography of White...
Share on Facebook White, Walter (Francis) (1893–1955) civil rights leader, author; born in Atlanta, Ga. Fair-skinned, blond, and blue-eyed although part black, he could pass for white but chose to champion the cause of the black race after experiencing a race riot in Atlanta, Ga. (...
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Janken, Kenneth R. 1998. "From Colonial Liberation to Cold War Liberalism: Walter White, the NAACP, and Foreign Affairs, 1941-1955." Ethnic and Racial Studies 21(6): 1074-95.Kenneth R. Janken, “From Colonial Liberation to Cold War Liberalism: Walter White, the NAACP, and Foreign Affairs...
Walter F. White of Atlanta, Georgia, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 as an assistant to Executive Secretary James Weldon Johnson. When Johnson retired in 1929, White replaced him as head of the NAACP, a position he maintained until his dea...
Walter White 作者: Janken, Kenneth Robert 出版社: Univ of North Carolina Pr副标题: Mr. NAACP页数: 477定价: 22.5装帧: PapISBN: 9780807857809豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 我来说两句 短评 ··· 热门 / 最新 / 好友 还没人写过短评呢 我要写书评 Walter...
At the Scott house, local NAACP president Edward Bryant III, wiping sweat as he stands outside the Scott home in the 88-degree heat, says he can name five black men shot down by police right off the top of his head, and adds that police don’t get held accountable when they kill pe...
a Grammy®, several NAACP Image awards, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was named the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The DCAL will be presented to Mosley by two-time National Book...
“For years there have been problems with racial profiling in North Charleston that had gotten better, but more recently got worse,” said Joseph Darby, a vice president with the nearby Charleston branch of the NAACP. “I think the way that this plays out, I hope, is that people wi...