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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Bear in the film), NAACP executive secretary Walter Francis White disliked actress Hattie McDaniel. White, a light-skinned black man with blonde hair and...

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

Francis Freeman (also known as Ajax) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Joe Kelly and artist...

The Francis E. Walter Dam is an embankment dam located in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Constructed in 1961 by the United States...

The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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...

Findlay (1814–1817) Professor Kenneth R. Janken, in his biography of Walter Francis White, claims that Harrison had six children by an enslaved African-American...

influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur, and Poitier, while performing with the American Negro...

steps to more fully enforce the rights of African-Americans. Led by Walter Francis White, The NECAMV met with Truman on September 19, 1946 and, after relating...

Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli, ˈræli, ˈrɑːli/; c. 1553 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable...

mycologist Walter Francis White (1893–1955), American civil rights activist Warren White (disambiguation), multiple people Webster White (1860–1923)...

at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The motel was owned by a businessman, Walter Bailey, and was named after his wife. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, a colleague...

Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Walter Hartright...

Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, Sonny Rollins and Afro-Puerto Rican Arturo Schomburg...

concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me." Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, arranged $160,000 to bail...

civil rights. After the speech, King jumped up and declared, "Walter, can you believe that white man not only stepped up to the plate, he hit it over the fence...

including arranging a meeting between Franklin and NAACP president Walter Francis White. Fearing he would lose the votes of Southern congressional delegations...

when Zanuck urged him to submit the script to Walter Francis White, executive secretary of the NAACP. White had no objection to it. Preminger began to assemble...

the country. Gregory's clients included Muhammad Ali. In 1987, he helped Walter Hudson, then the fattest person alive, lose nearly 680 pounds (310 kg) in...

Fire in the Flint is a 1924 novel by civil rights activist and writer Walter White, it was published by Knopf. The novel was written during the Harlem Renaissance...

Walter Francis Rice CSI (12 April 1871 – 21 March 1941) was a Scottish civil servant and British colonial administrator who served as interim Lieutenant...

United States civil rights leader Walter Francis White conducted investigations in the South during which he passed as white to gather information on lynchings...