Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

alongside Carol Burnett and Joseph Bova. White was born in New York City to Gladys Leah Powell and Walter Francis White, a civil-rights leader and national...

the NAACP leader Walter Francis White (with whom she had an affair while he was married to his first wife, Leah Gladys Powell White) at a time when such...

1931 he moved to New York City as assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White. When W. E. B. Du Bois left the organization in 1934, Wilkins replaced...

Massacre by eyewitnesses range from 50 to "more than a hundred". Walter Francis White, an NAACP attorney who visited Elaine shortly after the incident...

athletic achievement since 1850. On December 4, 1935, NAACP Secretary Walter Francis White wrote a letter to Owens, but never sent it. He was trying to dissuade...

Thurgood's wife John Magaro as Irwin Friedman Roger Guenveur Smith as Walter Francis White Ahna O'Reilly as Mrs. Eugenia Richmond Jeremy Bobb as John Strubing...

court ruling declared that the establishment of separate public schools for white children, which black children were barred from attending, was unconstitutional;...

Bear in the film), NAACP executive secretary Walter Francis White disliked actress Hattie McDaniel. White, a light-skinned black man with blonde hair and...

whites and blacks alike." Following Hattie McDaniel's Oscar win, Walter Francis White, leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

had witnessed the lynchings of three black men by white people. He said, "I seen enough of the white man's brutality to last me 26,000 years". Moving his...

influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur, and Poitier, while performing with the American Negro...

The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Francis Fanny (also known as Ajax) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Joe Kelly and artist...

mycologist Walter Francis White (1893–1955), American civil rights activist Warren White (disambiguation), multiple people Webster White (1860–1923)...

Findlay (1814–1817) Professor Kenneth R. Janken, in his biography of Walter Francis White, claims that Harrison had six children by an enslaved African-American...

concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me." Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, arranged $160,000 to bail...

give women more power in the organization; this included reducing Walter Francis White's dominating role as executive secretary.[citation needed] Baker believed...

civil rights. After the speech, King jumped up and declared, "Walter, can you believe that white man not only stepped up to the plate, he hit it over the fence...

306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The motel was owned by businessman Walter Bailey and was named after his wife. Reverend Ralph Abernathy, a colleague...

citing the U.S. Supreme Court precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson. Judge Walter Huxman wrote the opinion for the three-judge District Court panel, including...

Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli, ˈræli, ˈrɑːli/; c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable...

International Affairs at Morehouse College was named after Young. The Andrew and Walter Young YMCA, the only full-service YMCA operating in Southwest Atlanta, is...

He has written three novels, a biography of civil rights activist Walter Francis White, historical books on Chicago and New York City. Play For A Kingdom...

Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins and Afro-Puerto Rican Arturo Schomburg. Langston Hughes...

United States civil rights leader Walter Francis White conducted investigations in the South during which he passed as white to gather information on lynchings...

of the Lake by Walter Scott, in which two of the principal characters have the surname "Douglas". Douglass thought of joining a white Methodist Church...

Nicolas Walter noted the idea that nonviolence might work "runs under the surface of Western political thought without ever quite disappearing". Walter noted...

to integrate the formerly "white" section on the train. Before getting on the train in New Orleans, they encountered white protesters blocking the way...

leading directly to his creation of the novel. Additionally, Lewis met Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP and a man of majority European ancestry,...