BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 1st July, 1893, an African-American civil rights activist, novelist, essayist, and journalist, Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Walter led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for approximately a quarter of a century, from 1929 to 1955, after starting with the organization as an investigator […]
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