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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Walter White (1893-1955)
White was the fourth of seven children of Madeline Harrison and George White, a teacher and postal worker, respectively.
White eagerly vetted manuscripts, introduced writers to publishers, and brought stage and concert performers to the attention of the public.
During World War II (1941-45), White traveled to the European and Pacific theaters of war to investigate charges of discrimination against fl soldiers and to promote the idea that an Allied victory should lead to the dismantling of European colonialism and to racial equality for African Americans.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-747   (1475 words)

  
 About - Walter White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Walter White graduated this May at Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Robotics.
Walter is currently playing around with a 1/5 scale RC car to better learn vehicle dynamics and bring innovation to the design of RC cars.
Walter is also unique in that he has used Linux for most of his computing needs, Linux is a hobby of his.
www.walterjwhite.com /index/home/about   (208 words)

  
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By strengthening the legal arm of the N.A.A.C.P., White was able to direct campaigns for federal civil rights legislation in the form of anti-lynching laws, voting rights, laws banning poll taxes and discrimination in the U.S. armed forces, and laws in favor of desegregation and the equalization of schools.
The Whites' apartment at 409 Edgecombe Avenue, to which they moved in 1929, was known as "The House of Harlem" because of the prominent and important figures who were guests there.
Walter White married his second wife, Poppy Cannon, in 1949, with whom he was living at 242 East 68th Street at the time of his death.
www.hometoharlem.com /Harlem/hthcult.nsf/notables/walterfranciswhite   (490 words)

  
 Walter Francis White Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Walter Francis White (1893-1955), general secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 24 years, was an outspoken critic of lynching and racial injustice in America.
Walter White was born in 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia.
White weathered these criticisms of the traditional legal, political, and educational strategies of the organization, and after 1935 he focused much of the organization's energies toward a long, hard-fought, but ultimately fruitless campaign to pass a national anti-lynching bill.
www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-francis-white   (1134 words)

  
 Walter White
Walter White was one of the most important civil rights leaders of the first half of the twentieth century.
For his part, White often postponed action on a matter until he had a chance to talk to ER, and he considered her support crucial to the success of any major NAACP initiative.
White and ER were close friends, and he became one of the few associates to call ER "Eleanor." ER remained devoted to White, even when his marriage to the white Poppy Cannon inflamed many of his allies and critic, and she defended their marriage in private and in public.
www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/white-walter.htm   (725 words)

  
 Walter White - MSN Encarta
Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and educated at Atlanta University.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt drew upon the experience of White and the NAACP when he established a fair employment practices committee in 1941.
In 1945 White acted as consultant to the U.S. delegation at the organizational meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761558749   (142 words)

  
 Walter White Biography
Walter White was one of the most important civil rights leaders of the fist half of the twentieth century.
Walter White married his second wife, Poppy Cannon, in 1949, with whom he was living with at the time of his death.
I am also completing a biography of Walter White, who was a Harlem Renaissance author and who was the head of the NAACP from 1930 to his death in 1955.
www.nathanielturner.com /walterwhitebiography.htm   (1060 words)

  
 CD Baby: WALTER WHITE: Music of Life- Three Tonal Meditations by Walter White
Walter White grew up in a musical family near Detroit, Michigan and was inspired by recordings of Louis Armstrong, Maynard Ferguson, and Rafael Mendez.
Walter also received raves for his solo appearance with the Bremerton Symphony, playing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in Eb and Homage to Armstrong, a medley highlighting Louis Armstrong's strong instrumental style, arranged by Walter for solo trumpet, jazz trio, and orchestra.
Walter was a finalist in the Smithsonian's prestigious Louis Armstrong International Jazz Trumpet Competition and his 1980' s collaborations with saxophonist Rick Margitza led to winning Hennessy's National Jazz Search and a spot in the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl.
cdbaby.com /cd/walterwhite   (573 words)

  
 Vignette: Walter White
Walter F. White was a leading civil rights advocate of the first half of the twentieth century.
White, whose blond hair and blue-eyes belied his fl ancestry, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was a delegate to the Second Pan-African Congress in 1921, a member of the Advisory Council for the Government of the Virgin Islands in 1934-35, and an advisor to the United States delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 and the 1948 General Assembly in Paris.
faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/white_walter.htm   (289 words)

  
 The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories . Walter White | PBS
Walter White was one of the outstanding civil rights leaders in America between 1920 and 1955.
White's main goal was to have the federal government pass an anti-lynching law.
White invited Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of Law at Howard University, to join the NAACP and lead its legal attack on Jim Crow.
www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_white.html   (353 words)

  
 Black History Month Biography- Walter White (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Walter was one of seven children, his mother and father always struggled with money, but the children said they never noticed.
Walter would find out when and where their attacks would be, and he would try to stop them.
Walter was and still is a huge inspiration to everyone because of his bravery and courage.
www.newton.mec.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /bigelow/classroom/yerardi/blackhistory04/06blackhist04kp3/01blackhist04index.htm   (509 words)

  
 Walter Francis White (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
White, who was blonde and blue-eyed and able to pass for white, was granted credentials from the Chicago Daily News.
White's experience in this investigation and the subsequent appeals of the fl defendants charged with murder in connection with the violence led him to favor challenging racism through the courts rather than through traditional political activity.
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 A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Walter (Francis) White | PBS
White's principal objective became the abolition of lynching.
In an early assault on discrimination in voting rights, White in 1930 almost single-handedly succeeded in influencing the Senate to reject by a 41–39 vote President Herbert Hoover's nomination of Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
White's writings include two fictionalized accounts of a Southern lynching: Fire in the Flint (1924) and Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929).
www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/walter_francis_white.html   (381 words)

  
 The History of Jim Crow
Walter White, an African American with blond hair and blue eyes, was born on July 1, 1893 in Atlanta Georgia.
White graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 and two years later, became an executive secretary to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 1945 White, along with other prominent fl leaders, represented the NAACP at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/biographies/White_Walter.htm   (427 words)

  
 "Chicago and Its Eight Reasons": Walter White Considers the Causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
White also concluded, approvingly, that some fl citizens, with a newfound spirit of independence, chose to retaliate against the pervasive attacks by white Chicagoans rather than remain passive victims.
In this October 1919 article in the Crisis, the NAACP national magazine, the organization’s assistant executive secretary, Walter White, asserts that the fl population had been made the scapegoat in the wake of the violence.
That spark was contributed by a white youth when he knocked a colored lad off a raft at the 29th Street bathing beach and the colored boy was drowned.
historymatters.gmu.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /d/4978   (2483 words)

  
 Walter White - Search View - MSN Encarta
Walter White - Search View - MSN Encarta
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He wrote the novel Fire in the Flint (1924) and an autobiography, A Man Called White (1948).
encarta.msn.com /text_761558749__1/Walter_White.html   (201 words)

  
 Amazon.com: White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP: Books: Kenneth Robert Janken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Walter White was a blond-haired, blue-eyed charmer and "voluntary Negro" who could have slipped across the color line and passed as a white man. Instead, he burned his incandescent energies in the 20th century's many struggles for fl freedom.
His investigations of mob violence earned White a reputation as a fearless race man. But as executive secretary of the NAACP, White proved himself to be the classic organization man. A skilled lobbyist and fund-raiser, White favored a careful, bureaucratic NAACP than was profoundly undemocratic and sometimes unresponsive to its rank and file members.
Walter White would not have approved, but he sought the same "sense of somebodiness" that Dr. King wanted for his people.
www.amazon.com /White-Biography-Walter-Mr-NAACP/dp/1565847733   (2218 words)

  
 CD Baby: WALTER WHITE: Walter White Long-tone Accompaniment
Walter White grew up in a musical family near Detroit, Michigan and was inspired at an early age by the music of Louis Armstrong and Ludwig von Beethoven.
Walter's playing has graced the soundtracks of motion pictures and television, including network sit-coms 'Taxi' and the 'Cosby Show.' Walter is active as a performer, composer, arranger, and educator and is an avid archer.
Walter White is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician and plays Yamaha trumpets.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/walterwhite2   (1231 words)

  
 Walter Francis White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After graduating from Atlanta University in 1916 (now Clark Atlanta University), in 1918 he joined the national staff of the NAACP in New York at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson.
As Johnson's assistant national secretary and then as his successor at the helm of the NAACP, White waged a long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign for federal anti-lynching legislation in the United States House and Senate.
During the Joseph McCarthy era of political repression and persecution, White did not wish to criticize McCarthy’s demagogic ways, believing that the inevitable backlash would cost the NAACP their tax-exempt status and lead to equating Civil Rights with Soviet Communism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_White   (778 words)

  
 Walter White
Walter White served as a link between the persecutors and the victims.
With his advantage of light skin, he was able to pass as a white man when needed, and refer information back to his association of the NAACP.
He was a negro who resented the slights and insults of white men.
www.tcnj.edu /~wilson38/walter_white.htm   (349 words)

  
 Team Santa Fe - Walter White
Walter White's love of the outdoors comes from growing up in Deer Lodge, Montana.
Walter has done duathlons, off-road triathlons, and is currently training for marathons.
Walter lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife and two children and is the Director of Operations and Public Safety for Memphis International Airport.
www.teamsantafe.org /html/wwhite.html   (141 words)

  
 Walter White - Moviefone
Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 1st July, 1893.
Walter Francis White remained the NAACP's official spokesman until his death on...
Walter White - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Walter White Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Amazon.ca: The Fire in the Flint: Books: Walter F. White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
White's 1924 novel tells the story of Kenneth Harper, a young fl doctor who, after receiving his medical degree, returns to his Southern home to face segregation and racism.
Through this novel (NAACP executive secretary Walter White's first, and I think only one), White proved that he knew from where the South's and this nation's racial problem sprang.
Nevertheless, this is a very impressive first effort, given that it is alleged that White wrote the entire novel only in a matter of weeks while on a vacation.
www.amazon.ca /Fire-Flint-Walter-F-White/dp/0837109450   (545 words)

  
 White House Chef Walter Scheib Hosts Ask the White House (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Visit the "Ask the White House" archives to read other discussions with White House officials.
Clearly, cooking and meals for the White House become symbolic elements of the Presidency.
Scheib, recently italian President Ciampi and Prime Minister Berlusconi were guests of the President at the White House.
www.whitehouse.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /ask/20031125.html   (2614 words)

  
 Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
In this selection from his memoirs, Walter White, the future head of the NAACP recalled how, at age 13, he and his father defended their home from white rioters.
He had advocated enfranchisement of Negroes and poor whites, the abolition of lynching, control of big business, and rights for the little man, which even today would label him in the minds of conservatives as a dangerous radical.
The two rabble-rousers stumped the state screaming,“Nigger, nigger, nigger!” Some white farmers still believed WatsonÌs abandoned doctrine that the interests of Negro and white farmers and industrial workers were identical.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/104   (2363 words)

  
 Walter White Elementary School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The staff and community at Walter White School, recognizing education is a shared responsibility between the school, home and community, will enable students to acquire literacy through a quality and balanced education, competencies in basic, vocational, and communication skills, problem solving, technological abilities, and a dedication to life-long learning, student self-worth, and respect for others.
Our primary concern is serving the students who attend Walter White.
Therefore, the goal of everything we do will be to further the education and the development of the students.
ww.ceres.k12.ca.us   (158 words)

  
 WALTER WHITE ON LYNCHING
White what relation lynching had to the scheme of American life, he replied without hesitation.
White feels that eventually the bill will be brought to a vote.
White attributed this indifference on the part of so many Congressmen to the fact that their constituents fail to support the bill.
www.nathanielturner.com /walterwhitelynching.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Walter White (1893-1955)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After founding the Atlanta branch of the NAACP, he moved on to become assistant secretary for the organization's national staff in 1918.
White's relationship with ER dated from the 1930s when the two had collaborated (unsuccessfully) on efforts to obtain passage of federal antilynching legislation.
She continued to back him and the NAACP's efforts despite opposition from some in FDR's circle and White's own disappointment in the Roosevelt administration's failure to do more to improve conditions for African Americans.
www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/white-walter.cfm   (754 words)

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