The NAACP teamed up with local lawyers to appeal those convictions, arguing that they had been determined by the huge mobs that laid siege to the courthouse. Walter White had no legal training ...

Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1942 Library of Congress. The civil rights movement gave rise to an extraordinary array of ...

But Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America and the leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955 — has been all but forgotten. "Forgotten Hero: Walter White and ...