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Walter White: Mr. NAACP
Kenneth Robert Janken
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Description for Walter White: Mr. NAACP
Paperback. Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. White gained access to white elite culture, establishing friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt and numerous congressmen and Supreme Court justices. This book considers the man who embodied many contradictions. Num Pages: 504 pages, 27 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 750.
Walter 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 investigate more than 40 lynchings and race riots in the years following World War I. As executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931 until his death in 1955, White promoted the Harlem Renaissance and led influential national campaigns against lynching, segregation in the military, and racism in Hollywood movies. In this first scholarly biography, Kenneth Robert Janken considers the man ... Read more
Walter 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 investigate more than 40 lynchings and race riots in the years following World War I. As executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931 until his death in 1955, White promoted the Harlem Renaissance and led influential national campaigns against lynching, segregation in the military, and racism in Hollywood movies. In this first scholarly biography, Kenneth Robert Janken considers the man ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807857809
SKU
V9780807857809
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About Kenneth Robert Janken
KENNETH ROBERT JANKEN is professor of Afro-American studies and adjunct professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual.
Reviews for Walter White: Mr. NAACP
"Praise for the hardcover edition: "A model of nuanced scholarship and popular history." - Publishers Weekly "A well-done biography of an extremely important man.... [A]n excellent contribution to the scholarship on the early civil rights era." - Journal of African American History"