Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

alongside Carol Burnett and Joseph Bova. White was born in New York City to Gladys Leah Powell and Walter Francis White, a civil-rights leader and national...

the NAACP leader Walter Francis White (with whom she had an affair while he was married to his first wife, Leah Gladys Powell White) at a time when such...

1931 he moved to New York City as assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White. When W. E. B. Du Bois left the organization in 1934, Wilkins replaced...

Thurgood's wife John Magaro as Irwin Friedman Roger Guenveur Smith as Walter Francis White Ahna O'Reilly as Mrs. Eugenia Richmond Jeremy Bobb as John Strubing...

Massacre by eyewitnesses range from 50 to "more than a hundred". Walter Francis White, an NAACP attorney who visited Elaine shortly after the incident...

athletic achievement since 1850. On December 4, 1935, NAACP Secretary Walter Francis White wrote a letter to Owens, but never sent it. He was trying to dissuade...

court ruling declared that the establishment of separate public schools for white children, which black children were barred from attending, was unconstitutional;...

whites and blacks alike." Following Hattie McDaniel's Oscar win, Walter Francis White, leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

had witnessed the lynchings of three black men by white people. He said, "I seen enough of the white man's brutality to last me 26,000 years". Moving his...