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Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP (2025)

ALL 02/25/2025 (en) Documentary 113 Min
  • Release
    02/25/2025
  • Production
    PBS, American Experience Films, The WNET Group
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  • Original title
    Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
  • Original language
    en
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The Most Famous Activist You've Never Heard Of

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While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black — by law, identity, and conviction and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.

  1. Michelle Smawley

    Director

  2. Story



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Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP (2025) 113 Min

ALL 02/25/2025 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 02/25/2025
  • Production
    PBS, American Experience Films, The WNET Group
  • Original title Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The Most Famous Activist You've Never Heard Of

Overview

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black — by law, identity, and conviction and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.

  1. Michelle Smawley

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Charnelle “Cha” Quallis

    Editor

  4. Emily L. Harrold, Lauren Wimbush, Rob Rapley

    Producer



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