"White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret – An Investigative Biography of Passing, Lynching, and Civil Rights Activism" by A.J. Baime. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2022.

Book description: An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever. Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence.

I wanted to learn more about him, as his name often comes up in books about the civil rights movement and in books about the NAACP. Well written and very interesting.

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