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Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America
Author(s): Thomas Dyja (Author)
- Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
- Publication Date: 18 Sept. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781566637664
- ISBN-13: 156663766X
Book Description
A portrait of the influential secretary of the NAACP explores his dedication to advancing civil rights in America, tracing his role in ending lynching, creating the legal strategy that led to Brown v. Board of Education, and hosting a premier salon for the Harlem Renaissance.
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About the Author
Thomas Dyja is the author of novels (Play for a Kingdom, which won the Casey Award in 1998 for the best baseball book of the year; Meet John Trow, and The Moon in Our Hands), nonfiction (Only Connect, with Dr. Rudy Crew, about reforming our schools), and children’s books, and has edited a number of books of biography. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in New York City.
