| LC control no. | n 50019876 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3545.H6165 |
| Personal name heading | White, Walter, 1893-1955 |
| Variant(s) | White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 White, Walter F., 1893-1955 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1893-07-01 |
| Death date | 1955-03-21 |
| Place of birth | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Atlanta University National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers |
| Found in | The fire in the flint ... 1929. The fire in the flint, 1996: t.p. ( Walter White) African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (White, Walter Francis; civil rights activist; born 01 July 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States; graduated from Atlanta University (1916); founding member and secretary of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP (1916); became NAACP chief executive (1929); raised NAACP's public profile and its influence on national politics during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Harry Truman's Fair Deal; won the support of the majority of the Senate and House of Representatives for a federal antilynching law (1930s); organized Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial (1939); NAACP secretary and head of the National Committee against Mob Violence; convinced President Truman to form a presidential civil rights commission (1946); persuaded Truman to address the closing rally of the NAACP's annual meeting, Washington Monument (1947); died 21 March 1955 in New York, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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