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FBI File on NAACP

Federal Bureau of Investigation
A typed document with numerous redactions marked out in dark black ink.
Select pages from the FBI's file on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1941-1953.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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    Walter White: Advocate in Changing Times

    This lesson explores the complexity of former NAACP president Walter White’s public views during the Cold War Era and reveals some of the divisions within the civil rights movement as McCarthyism intensified.

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