Walter White
Walter White was the executive secretary of the NAACP and also a novelist who used fiction to expose the horrors of lynching and racial violence. His undercover investigations informed both his journalism and his two novels.
Works
- The Fire in the FlintNovel of Black doctor confronting Southern racism and white mob violence
- FlightNovel of Black man's escape from Southern racism through racial passing
- A Man Called WhiteAutobiography of Black activist and NAACP leader fighting racism and injustice
- Rope and FaggotHistorical study examining lynching as tool of racial oppression and terror
- How Far the Promised LandCollection of essays on racial justice, civil rights, and African American progress