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Quick Facts
- NAME: Walter Francis White
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist
- BIRTH DATE: July 01, 1893
- DEATH DATE: March 21, 1955
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Atlanta, Georgia
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
Best Known For
Walter White became de facto spokesman for African-Americans from his longstanding post with the NAACP.
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Profile
At age 25, Walter White joined the NAACP national staff and, as he rose in the organization, waged a long and ultimately successful campaign against the lynching of blacks by white mobs in the United States. Also, at the outbreak of WWII, White pressed for a U.S. Fair Employment Practices Committee that would act to ban discrimination in government and wartime industry.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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