This is Walter Francis White, what is interesting about White was the executive secretary for the NAACP from 1931-1955. His appearance was that of a White man because he was. White was biracial, but chose to go through his life as a black man despite his appearance. His main goal was to abolish lynching. Throughout his career investigations of lynchings and race riots and conducted a vigorous, sustained drive for enactment of a federal antilynching law. Although no such law was enacted, the climate of public opinion was markedly changed by his investigations and exposés. In 1918, when he joined the NAACP staff, 67 persons, all but 4 of them blacks, were lynched. In the year of his death, 1955, there were only three recorded lynchings, and none had occurred in the five previous years. Lynchings had become a rarity and were soon to disappear from the American scene. As he put it in his book, “I am not white. There is nothing within my mind and heart which tempts me to think I am. Yet I realize acutely that the only characteristic which matters to either the white or the colored race—the appearance of whiteness—is mine. There is magic in a white skin; there is tragedy, loneliness, exile, in a black skin.” I don’t know about that tragedy and loneliness part, I guess I understand, but great work.
enemies too.