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Walter White
The Dilemma of Black Identity in America
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2008]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown v. Board of Education, and initiated the campaign demanding that Hollywood give better roles to black actors. Driven by ambitions for himself and his people, he offered his entire life to the advancement of civil rights in America.
Series: Library of African-American biography.
Subjects:
White, Walter, 1893-1955.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African American novelists -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
White, Walter, 1893-1955.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African American novelists -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781566637664 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY White, Walter | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY White, Walter | Southeast | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.