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Books by Walter White
The Fire in the Flint (novel,1924)
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Flight
(novel,1926) /
Rope
and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929)
How far the Promised Land?
955) /
A
Man Called White (autobiography,1948).
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Books on
Lynching & Racial Violence
The Chronological
History of the Negro in America (1969) /
Strain of
Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (1975)
But There Was
No Peace: The
Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction
(1984) /
Lynch Law
( 1905) /
An American Dilemma
(1944)
The Crucible of Race:
Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
(1984) /
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
(1989)
Rope and Faggot
( 1929) /
The Tragedy of
Lynching (1933) /
Race Riot in East St,
Louis (1964) /
Urban Racial Violence
(1976)
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Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
(1968) /
Violence
in America (1969) *
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White:
The Biography
of Walter White, Mr. NAACP
By Kenneth Janken
Reviews
Almost forgotten today, Walter
White was the civil rights virtuoso of the mid-20th century
whose literary salesmanship helped launch the Harlem Renaissance
and whose organizational leadership made possible Brown v. Board
of Education. This superbly researched, consistently perceptive,
and long-overdue life and time of a voluntary Negro closes an
inexplicable gap between W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King,
Jr.
--David Levering Lewis, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001 for W.E.B. Du
Bois: Biography of a Race, 1968-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois:
The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
Janken restores Walter White to
his proper place as one of the most important figures of the
twentieth century.
--Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann
Woodward Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Gender
and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920.
Walter White's explosive energy
pulses through the pages of this superb biography. White
provides a compelling portrait of an exceedingly complex figure
and offers keen insight into a formative period in the struggle
for racial justice in America.
--Patricia Sullivan, author of days of Hope:
Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and fellow, the W.E.B.
Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
In this important book about a
largely overlooked, yet pivotal figure, Janken has made one of
the most significant contributions to the field of American
history in years.
--Paula J. Giddings, author of When and
Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in
America
Janken's spellbinding examination
of White's Extraordinary life . . . reminds us that race in
America has never been as simple as black and white. By
challenging the black-white paradigm, this richly detailed
narrative is especially relevant to today's multiracial America.
--Helen Zia, author of Asian American
Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
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Walter Francis White
(July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia – March 21, 1955, New York, New York)
was an African American who became a spokesman for his community in the
United States for almost a quarter of a century, and served as executive
secretary (1931–1955) of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He
graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 (now
Clark Atlanta University). In 1918 he joined the small national
staff of the NAACP in New York at the invitation of
James Weldon Johnson. White acted as Johnson's assistant national
secretary. In 1931 he succeeded him at the helm of the NAACP.
White oversaw the plans and
organizational structure of the fight against public segregation. Under
his leadership, the NAACP set up the
Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to
segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. Among
these was the Supreme Court ruling in
Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregated
education was inherently unequal. He was the virtual author of President
Truman's presidential order desegregating the armed forces after the
Second World War. White also quintupled NAACP membership to nearly
500,000.In addition to his NAACP work, White was a journalist, novelist,
and essayist, and influential in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Wikipedia.
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Kenneth R. Janken
Education:
B.A., M.A. (History) Hunter College of the City University
of New York
Ph. D. (American History) Rutgers University
Dr. Kenneth Janken is an African and Afro-American studies
professor and an adjunct professor of history at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: krjanken@email.unc.edu |
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TEACHING INTERESTS: In addition to
our department's survey course on the black experience, I teach
the civil rights movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and black
thought. In the next several semesters, I would like to
introduce courses on black politics and African American
biography and autobiography. I am on the faculty advisory
board of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and I am a firm
believer that all undergraduates should have such an experience
at least once in their time at Carolina.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: So far my research has
concentrated on 20th century African American history, with a
special emphasis on the varieties of black intellectual and
political thought and action and the connections between African
Americans and the world. I am the author of
Rayford W.
Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual
(1993), which is a biography of a prominent and important
scholar and Pan-African activist; . I am also completing a
biography of Walter White, who was a Harlem Renaissance author
and who was the head of the NAACP from 1930 to his death in
1955. I have written several articles on these two
historical figures, as well as an article on African American
intellectuals and their relations with their French-speaking
black counterparts during the 1920s and 1930s.
OTHER INTERESTS: I love baseball, both watching
it and playing it. I also have a busy family life, what
with a spouse and two young children. * * *
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Bill
Moyers Interviews Douglass A. Blackmon
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch2.html
Douglas A. Blackmon,
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II (2008)
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