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WHITE
"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, 1868-1919 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
WHITE
"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, 1868-1919 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 Vissza