NAACP Leader Walter White: 1942
Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) shown in June 1942.
White led the organization in a legal and lobby strategy and generally opposed mass pressure and civil disobedience.
He was a fervent foe of the Communist Party and its allied organization the International Labor Defense.
A public battle of words broke out between the organizations over the handling of the "Scottsboro Boys" case in the 1930s. The debate over strategy and tactics to be deployed in the quest for civil rights continued for decades.
For an article on the Scottsboro marches and rallies in Washington, D.C, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/scottsboro-boys-...
For more images related to the Scottsboro campaign in Washington, D.C., see flic.kr/s/aHsjE3vopE
Photo by Gordon Parks, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Call number LC-USF346- 013345-C [P&P].
NAACP Leader Walter White: 1942
Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) shown in June 1942.
White led the organization in a legal and lobby strategy and generally opposed mass pressure and civil disobedience.
He was a fervent foe of the Communist Party and its allied organization the International Labor Defense.
A public battle of words broke out between the organizations over the handling of the "Scottsboro Boys" case in the 1930s. The debate over strategy and tactics to be deployed in the quest for civil rights continued for decades.
For an article on the Scottsboro marches and rallies in Washington, D.C, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/scottsboro-boys-...
For more images related to the Scottsboro campaign in Washington, D.C., see flic.kr/s/aHsjE3vopE
Photo by Gordon Parks, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Call number LC-USF346- 013345-C [P&P].