WALTER WHITE (VO): First they took him to the white ward because they thought he was white. And then my brother-in-law, who is brown skinned, came in and asked for my father, and they said ...

That initiative developed the legal strategy that ultimately dismantled school segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Roy Wilkins, Walter White, and Thurgood Marshall.

By the time the NAACP celebrated its greatest victory, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, White had been reduced to a figurehead. Walter White portrait, 1950s. Walter White died of a ...