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__African American, Walter Francis White__: American civil-rights leader

treated equally.** || **People are people no matter what color.** || || School Days || When Walter attended school he had to go to the African Americans school and he had to sit all the way in the back of the bus.The Board of Education of Atlanta said that Walter White and all blacks have to stop going to school at the end of 6th grade. When Walter was thirteen he had to expirience being in a race riot. || back for African American children. || He worked to change the laws of desegragation of African Americans in schools. He also changed education rights and equalization. African Americans were allowed to stay in school pass the 6th grade. || || Why he received the Spingarn Medal. || He recevied this medal because of his great and effective campaigns and speeches he gave. He also won this medal because of his investigations into lynching and his anti-lynching bill. || || Books he has written || White wrote alot of books and here are some of them: The Fire in the Flint, and The Man called White. The Fire and the Flint is about a young man that comes back to his hometown of Georiga and he tries to help his old community be a better place for everyone. The Man called White is a bio of Walter Francis White's life. ||
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 * 1 [[image:http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhoustonP.jpg]] || Early Childhood || Walter Francis White was born on July 1, 1893 in Atlanta Georiga. He had six brothers and sisters. His father was a postman and his mother was a school teacher. ||
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 * 3 [[image:http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/stowell/stow72.jpg width="374" height="236"]] || College and Working || In 1916 Walter White graduated from Atlanta University and after he got out of college he worked for the Atlanta's Standard Life Insurance Company until 1918. Then James Weldon Johnson of the N.A.A.C.P. ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), he asked him to come and join them. He said yes for the job. ||
 * [[image:http://cache.eb.com/eb/thumb?id=5164]] || White and the N.A.A.C.P. || Whites job was that he had to rick his life and had to try and attend lynchings as a white person. 12 days in his new job he had to go investigate more lynchings in Tennessee. ||
 * 5 [[image:http://pro.corbis.com/images/SF36874.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B588467AD-9D93-48D1-A009-9DD3109BF1E7%7D width="313" height="398"]] || Campaigns, Federal civil rights,and voting rights for everyone. || White did alot of campaigns for many different reasons such as: for federal civil rights, anti-lynching laws, voting rights, laws banning poll taxes, and stopping discrimination. Because of his good campaigns, White also recevied the Spingarn Metal. He received that metal for his effective speeches. ||
 * 6 [[image:http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections/wpa/wpaga159.jpg width="311" height="275"]] || Helping get schools
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 * 8[[image:http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/ware/images/book_images/1943_book.png]]
 * 9 [[image:http://pro.corbis.com/images/JS1562123.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B75323B9B-DBA5-43A2-A470-2CBD81A92A35%7D]] || His family || He married his first wife was Glandys Powell in 1922. They lived in Harlem, New York. They had one daughter named Jane White, who became an actress. After a divorce, he met and married, Poppy Cannon in 1949. ||
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1. He was born on July 1, 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia. 2. He was a civil rights leader and an author. 3. He was part of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1929 to his death in 1955. 4. The Board of Education in Atlanta ended public schooling for all blacks after the 6th grade. 5. After Walter White joined the N.A.A.C.P. and was a very active member that impressed James Weldon Johnson and he invited Walter White to join the national organization in New York as assistant secretary. 6. After White
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