Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in AmericaPosted in Biography, Books, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Law, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2010-08-30 19:49Z by Steven |
Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America
Ivan R. Dee
October 2008
224 pages
Electronic ISBN: 1-56663-815-1 / 978-1-56663-815-9
Cloth ISBN: 1-56663-766-X / 978-1-56663-766-4
Paper ISBN: 1-56663-865-8 / 978-1-56663-865-4
Thomas Dyja
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. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown v. Board of Education, and initiated the campaign demanding that Hollywood give better roles to black actors. Driven by ambitions for himself and his people, he offered his entire life to the advancement of civil rights in America.
Table of Contents
- A World of His Own
- The Life Insurance Temperament
- Undercover Against Lynching
- At the Center of the Harlem Renaissance
- Conflict, Control, and the Making of Mr. NAACP
- Fighting on All Fronts
- “I am white and I am black”