The story of one of the most influential yet forgotten civil rights figures, Walter White. The civil rights movement was set in motion by activists of the National Association for the Advancement ...

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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 ...