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  • Why I Remain A Negro

    She scribbled on a piece of paper and handed it to another woman, a woman whose skin was reddish brown,, a woman who was probably colored. “Is Mr. White white or colored?”

  • The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice

    The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…

  • Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

    Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…

  • White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

    White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP The New Press Fall 2002 496 pages Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-56584-773-6 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence From…

  • Walter White and Passing

    Walter White and Passing Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) pages 17-27 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050034 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed Atlantan, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White…

  • The Awareness of Walter White

    The Awareness of Walter White The Land Press Okiecentric 2011-05-05 Adrian Margaret Brune I grew up in Tulsa, but was raised knowing next to nothing about the Race Riot of 1921. Though I considered myself educated when I left for Northwestern University at the age of 18 in 1994, I had never taken a black…

  • THE CONGRESS: Black’s White

    THE CONGRESS: Black’s White TIME Magazine 1938-01-24 To Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week’s doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When…

  • White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana

    White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…

  • The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review]

    The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review] Sewanee Review Volume 118, Number 3, Summer 2010 pages lxxxii-lxxxiv E-ISSN: 1934-421X Print ISSN: 0037-3052 Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of English Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tom Dyja. “Walter White: The Dilemma of Black identity in America”.  The Library of African American Biography.  Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee Publishsers,…

  • Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America

    The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.