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Walter White became de facto spokesman for African-Americans from his longstanding post with the NAACP.
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Play NowWalter Francis White. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 03:20, May 24, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/walter-white-9529708.
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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.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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