Encyclopedia article about Walter White, Atlanta native, who served as chief secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1929 to 1955. During the twenty-five years preceding the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, White was one of the most prominent African American figures and spokespeople in the country. Upon his death in 1955, the New York Times eulogized him as "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." He attended Atlanta University and worked with the Standard Life Insurance Company before moving to New York and working with the NAACP.

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