A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White

by Walter Francis White and Walter White

Book Overview

First published in 1948, A Man Called White is the autobiography of the famous civil rights activist Walter White during his first thirty years of service to the National Association for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000EEK7V
• Release Date: January 1948
• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Being African American through the mid 50s

I read this autobiography in college, and it took my breath away. White, who was executive secretary of the NAACP until his death in the mid 1950s, writes candidly of his work and life in the fight for civil rights. The book title is a play on his last name and the fact that his mixed ancestry left him with light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. He used his appearance to help him get evidence in lynching investigations, and was successful because the lynchers thought he was white (being born and raised in Atlanta didn't hurt either!) The man was no saint (ditched his wife to marry another woman, a practice I don't endorse) but you cannot read this book without having some kind of change in your thinking on race relations--then or now.