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History Unplugged Podcast

The NAACP Leader Who Passed As White, Infiltrated Lynching Rings, Architected ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, and Ended His Life in Scandal

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

One of the most important Civil Rights Leaders in the 20th century, behind perhaps only the giants of the movement such as Martin Luther King Jr. WEB DuBois, or Booker T Washington, was Walter Francis White, a Black man who led two lives: one as a...

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:40.6

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0:49.6

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0:52.0

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1:00.7

HISTORY IS IN JUST A BUNCH OF NAMES AND DATES AND FACTS

1:10.0

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here

1:15.5

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is

1:24.8

I'm your host, Scott Rank

1:39.3

If you had to make a Mount Rushmore of the most important people in the civil rights movement

1:44.0

A few names would easily come to your mind, Martin Luther King Jr., WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington

1:49.6

But there's another person who arguably belongs there who's been largely forgotten

1:53.6

and that's Walter Francis White

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