Walter F. White

CTL-E-1531 · Person · activist · 1910s-1950s

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NAACP executive secretary (1931-1955); undercover investigator of more than forty lynchings; author of Rope and Faggot (1929).

The record

• Also known as: Walter Francis White, Walter White

Relationships

• Brown v. Board of Education decided (1954) — related to
  White led the NAACP through the legal campaign culminating in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — affiliated with
  White served as NAACP executive secretary from 1931 (acting from 1929) until his death in 1955.
• Roy Wilkins — related to
  White groomed Wilkins as his successor; Wilkins succeeded him as NAACP executive secretary in 1955.
• Thurgood Marshall — related to
  As executive secretary, White oversaw the NAACP legal department in which Marshall served as special counsel and LDF director-counsel.
• W. E. B. Du Bois — related to
  White dismissed Du Bois from the NAACP staff in 1948 after Du Bois circulated a memorandum critical of the organization's direction.

Referenced by

• James Weldon Johnson — related to → this record
• Paul Robeson — related to → this record
• Rope and Faggot — authored by → this record
• Roy Wilkins — worked under → this record
• Thurgood Marshall — related to → this record

Sources

• CultureTechLens batch RELP3 research

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