e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Subjects
White, Walter, 1893-1955.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
by title:
White lies : the dou...
by call number:
323.092 W589b
Search the Web
Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
White, Walter, 1893-1955.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
White
lies
: the
double
life
of
Walter
F
.
White
and
America
's
darkest
secret
/ A. J. Baime.
by
Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Call #:
323.092 W589b
Subjects
White
,
Walter
, 1893-1955.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780358447757 (hc)
Description:
xiii, 384 p., 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-367) and index.
Summary:
"A riveting biography of
Walter
White
, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for
white
in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of
America
forever.
Walter
White
led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a
white
newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair,
White
was able to “pass” for
white
. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the
darkest
crimes in
America
and helping to plant the seeds of the civil rights movement. White’s risky career led him to lead a
double
life
. He was simultaneously a second-class citizen subject to Jim Crow laws at home and a widely respected professional with full access to the
white
world at work. His
life
was fraught with internal and external conflict -- much like the story of race in
America
. Starting out as an obscure activist,
White
ultimately became Black America’s most prominent leader. A character study of White’s
life
and career with all these complexities has never been rendered, until now. By the award-winning, best-selling author of The Accidental President,Dewey Defeats Truman, and The Arsenal of Democracy,
White
Lies
uncovers the
life
of a civil rights leader unlike any other. "--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Home Delivery - HN
Adult Black Nonfiction
323.092 W589b
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.