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Walter White

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Description for Walter White Paperback. Series: Library of African-American Biography. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Library of African-American Biography
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566638654
SKU
V9781566638654
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About Thomas Dyja
Thomas Dyja is the author of novels (Play for a Kingdom, which won the Casey Award in 1998 for the best baseball book of the year; Meet John Trow, and The Moon in Our Hands), nonfiction (Only Connect, with Dr. Rudy Crew, about reforming our schools), and children's books, and has edited a number of books of biography. A graduate ... Read more

Reviews for Walter White
In prose that moves effortlessly across the page, Thomas Dyja captures the energy and accomplishments of Walter White, one of the most important and effective African American leaders of the last century.
Kenneth Robert Janken, author of Walter White: Mr. NAACP Walter White, the longtime executive secretary of the NAACP, is one of the most complex and yet fascinating ... Read more

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