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Walter F. White : The NAACP's Ambassador for Racial Justice /

"Walter F. White of Atlanta, Georgia, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 as an assistant to Executive Secretary James Weldon Johnson. When Johnson retired in 1929, White replaced him as head of the NAACP, a position he maintained until his deat...

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Autores principales: Zangrando, Robert L. (Autor), Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Atlanta days -- Back to the South and up to the Hill: the antilynching campaign -- Pan-Africanism and the Harlem Renaissance -- The challenges of leadership -- Legal battles and Walter White's triumph -- On Haiti's behalf -- Race and class: the Harris challenge -- A renewed antilynching campaign -- At the top of his game -- Bargaining with a president -- Confronting Hollywood -- Fighting for jobs and ballots -- Wartime challenges -- Overseas in wartime -- A world awaiting -- Postwar violence and an extraordinary presidential committee -- Poppy -- A pivotal year -- The election of Truman, 1948 -- A final breach with Du Bois -- To Paris and Berlin -- Months of stress and tension -- "Active when absent" -- Conservative revival in the troubled fifties -- A global advocacy -- Diminished final years. 
520 |a "Walter F. White of Atlanta, Georgia, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1918 as an assistant to Executive Secretary James Weldon Johnson. When Johnson retired in 1929, White replaced him as head of the NAACP, a position he maintained until his death in 1955. During his long tenure, White was in the vanguard of the struggle for interracial justice. His reputation went into decline, however, in the era of grassroots activism that followed his death. White's disagreements with the US Left, and his ambiguous racial background--he was of mixed heritage, could "pass" as white, and divorced a black woman to marry a white woman--fueled ambivalence about his legacy. In this comprehensive biography, Zangrando and Lewis seek to provide a reassessment of White within the context of his own time, revising critical interpretations of his career. White was a promoter of and a participant in the Harlem Renaissance, a daily fixture in the halls of Congress lobbying for civil rights legislation, and a powerful figure with access to the administrations of Roosevelt (via Eleanor) and Truman. As executive secretary of the NAACP, White fought incessantly to desegregate the American military and pushed to ensure equal employment opportunities. On the international stage, White advocated for people of color in a decolonized world, and for economic development aid to nations like India and Haiti, bridging the civil rights struggles at home and abroad"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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