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  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Walter White became de facto spokesman for African-Americans from his longstanding post with the NAACP.


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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.

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