White, Walter, 1893-1955 (Personal Name)

The fire in the flint ... 1929.

The fire in the flint, 1996: t.p. ( Walter White)

African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (White, Walter Francis; civil rights activist; born 01 July 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States; graduated from Atlanta University (1916); founding member and secretary of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP (1916); became NAACP chief executive (1929); raised NAACP's public profile and its influence on national politics during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Harry Truman's Fair Deal; won the support of the majority of the Senate and House of Representatives for a federal antilynching law (1930s); organized Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial (1939); NAACP secretary and head of the National Committee against Mob Violence; convinced President Truman to form a presidential civil rights commission (1946); persuaded Truman to address the closing rally of the NAACP's annual meeting, Washington Monument (1947); died 21 March 1955 in New York, New York, United States)