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Portrait of Walter White

Carl Van Cechten via Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
A Black man with very light skin, a grey mustache, and short grey wavy hair sits in front of a colorful background facing the photographer while looking down and to the viewer's left.
Portrait of Walter White, 1941.
Source: Carl Van Cechten, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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  • A Black man with very light skin, a grey mustache, and short grey wavy hair sits in front of a colorful background facing the photographer while looking down and to the viewer's left.

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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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