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| Genre/Form: | Biography Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dyja, Tom. Walter White. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2008 (OCoLC)652342275 |
| Named Person: | Walter Francis White; Walter Francis White |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Dyja |
| ISBN: | 9781566637664 156663766X 9781566638654 1566638658 |
| OCLC Number: | 221149913 |
| Description: | ix, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A world of his own -- The life insurance temperament -- Undercover against lynching -- At the center of the Harlem Renaissance -- Conflict, control, and the making of Mr. NAACP -- Fighting on all fronts -- "I am white and I am black." |
| Series Title: | Library of African-American biography. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas Dyja. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"Thomas Dyja's fascinating and compelling biography of Walter White takes us into the personal and political world of this fair-skinned, blond and blue-eyed, brash and impulsive, stylish and complex man. His story is about one of the few individuals in American history who devoted himself completely to the concept of a color-blind nation, yet lost the delicate balance between ambition and advocacy that had been his trademark." "In restoring Walter White to his place in the story of the African-American struggle, Thomas Dyja fills the void between Booker T. Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also confronts some of the thorniest issues between blacks and whites in America."--BOOK JACKET.
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Thomas Dyja s gripping biography of Walter White has restored an essential American life. With impeccable research, acute sensitivity and literary grace, Dyja has restored one of the most important links in the long chain of events and causes that brought Americans, at long last, into the the bright sunshine of civil and human rights.--Ted Widmer, author of Ark of the Liberties Read more...
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- White, Walter Francis, -- 1893-1955.
- African Americans -- Biography.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
- African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- African American novelists -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
- White, Walter Francis.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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