United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981893/1955Walter White, a prominent civil rights activist in Atlanta during the first half of the twentieth century, became the executive secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and served in that position until his death in 1955. In 1948 White published a memoir, A Man Called White, which details his family's experience of the 1906 Atlanta race riot.Photograph of Walter White, a prominent civil rights activist in Atlanta, Georgia during the first half of the twentieth century. In this head and shoulders portrait, he wears a suit and tie and faces forward.White became the executive secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and served in that position until his death in 1955. In 1948 White published a memoir, A Man Called White, which details his family's experience of the 1906 Atlanta race riot.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlanta-race-riot-1906Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlanta-race-riot-1906Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleAfrican American authors--Georgia--AtlantaMen--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American men--Georgia--AtlantaAuthors, American--Georgia--AtlantaWalter WhiteStillImage