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Walter Francis White – Antique Wall Art

Walter Francis White, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Walter Francis White, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Walter Francis White

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Walter Francis White, the subject of this portrait, led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for more than two decades, serving as its executive secretary from 1931 until his death in 1955. He became known as a skilled investigator of lynchings and racial violence in the South, traveling to sites of attacks and working to bring their details before federal officials and the public. White was also a novelist and essayist who moved easily between literary circles of the Harlem Renaissance and political life in Washington. The caption card for this print carries no date, so the image should be read as a likeness of a prominent civil rights leader rather than as a record of a specific occasion.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,155 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158949

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