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Subject(s)

• White, Walter 1893-1955 [Browse]
• African Americans [Browse]
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—Biography [Browse]
• African Americans—Biography [Browse]
• Civil rights workers—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Civil rights [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Series

The American Negro, his history and literature.

Summary note

"First published in 1948, A Man Called White is the autobiography of the famous civil rights activist Walter White during his first thirty years of service to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. White joined the NAACP in 1918 and served as its executive secretary from 1931 until his death in 1955. His recollections tell not only of his personal life, but amount to an insider's history of the association's first decades. Although an African American, White was fair-skinned, blond-haired, and blue-eyed. His ability to pass as a white man allowed him--at great personal risk--to gather important information regarding lynchings, disfranchisement, and discrimination. Much of A Man Called White recounts his infiltration of the country's white-racist power structure and the numerous legal battles fought by the NAACP that were aided by his daring efforts. Penetrating and detailed, this autobiography provides an important account of crucial events in the development of race relations before 1950--from the trial of the "Scottsboro Boys" to an investigation of the treatment of African American servicemen in World War II, from the struggle against the all-white primaries in the South to court decisions--at all levels--on equal education"--University of Georgia Press website.

Notes

Reprint of the 1948 ed.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• I learn what I am
• A family in Atlanta
• A Jew is lynched
• Atlanta Negroes unite
• In which I "pass"
• I decline to be lynched
• I almost join the Klan
• Jimcrow in Europe and Harlem
• A wife, a book, and a hospital
• A Black tide flows Northward
• Guilding the lily-white vote
• The civil war in Washington
• Jimcrow on the freight car
• Death of a citizen
• Ada Sipuel and others "similarly situated"
• No content with preaching
• Handshake from a son
• Hug Black and the NAACP
• Marian Anderson and the DAR
• Fighters wanted
• no Negroes
• Mother stops climbing stairs
• Wendell Willkie and the good fight
• The fifth estate
• Turn to the left at Detroit
• No social experiments, please!
• Machine guns and tear gas in Detroit
• Harlem boils over
• "I seen them work"
• Geed enough to unload ships
• Eyes on the Negro vote
• Purity in the Pacific
• Jimcrow in the South Pacific
• Cloudy tomorrow
• Feddom house-warming
• "Read and run"
• Johnny (Black) comes marching home
• The President is helpless
• Children grow up
• No road back to Atlanta
• All shadows are dark.

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LCCN

^^^69018561^//r83

OCLC

6105

RCP

H - S

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