Wednesday, September 24, 4 PM
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While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.
Who Was Walter White? | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Grades 9-12
Learn how Walter White, a mixed-race man who referred to himself as an “enigma of a Black man occupying a White body,” changed the course of the civil rights movement and the 20th century but has been largely lost to history, in this digital video from Forgotten Hero | American Experience.
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