American Experience Forgotten Hero Walter White And The NAACP New DVD Presale

American Experience Forgotten Hero Walter White And The NAACP New DVD

***** This is a preorder for a new release item that is not yet released. The release date for this item is 20-05-25. This item will be shipped from our Melbourne Warehouse within 5 days of the release date *****

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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. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black — by law, identity and conviction and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. 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. Aurthor: Rob Rapley. Director: Michelle Smawley. Producer: Emily Harrold, Lauren Wimbush, Rob Rapley.

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