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...Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "it's the record wiped clean of lynchings." The Boys Were Looking. Because of his appearance, White was peculiarly equipped to fight racial segregation. Never in his lifetime was he spotted by a stranger as a Negro. After he joined the NAACP in 1918, he became a courageous investigator of lynchings and mob violence. Once, during a race riot in Chicago, White was shot at by a Negro who thought he was white...
...quarter of a century ago White became the executive secretary of the NAACP, and a dogged lobbyist in Washington. He has since had a major hand in virtually every civil-rights law enacted. He sternly waved away the Communist Party help, and denounced Communists as exploiters of the Negro...
...being a leader of his chosen people. He willingly bucked public opinion, Negro and white, when he thought he was right. After his first wife divorced him, in 1949, White married Poppy Cannon, a white woman who was born in South Africa. He was widely criticized, and the NAACP decided to keep him as secretary only after a 3½hour debate, by a vote...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviewing Sid Caesar and the NAACP's Walter White...
Marshall, who ranked first in the 1933 graduating class at the Howard Law School, will speak on the elimination of segregation in public schools. He is currently representing the NAACP in the segregation cases which are before the Supreme Court. He has also recently traveled to Korea and Japan to investigate the segregation problems in the Armed Forces...