Walter F. White, as one newspaper article would later put it, was a “Negro by choice.”
The Harlem resident was the product of generations of white owners fathering children with their slaves, and as a result had light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes.
He began working with the NAACP as an adult, and in 1918, he moved to New York for an executive job in the group’s Fifth Avenue headquarters. White also went undercover to look into the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which an affluent black neighborhood was burned to the ground after an African-American teenager was accused of a raping a white woman in an elevator .
In 1949, White and his second wife, Poppy, visited Tokyo as part of a tour of 14 foreign capitals when he was secretary of the NAACP.His work raised awareness of racist killings, but unfortunately yielded few concrete results. But then, in 1949, came the scandal that would eclipse his legacy — the main reason, Baime argues, many have not heard of White or his work.
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