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English: Gelatin silver print of a photograph of Walter Francis White. Per the National Portrait Gallery: Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Walter White headed the NAACP from 1931 to 1955. During these difficult years, he directed an unsuccessful struggle for an anti-lynching bill and implemented a long-range campaign of legal actions culminating in the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing discrimination in the nation's schools. White's tenure at the NAACP saw it through the Depression, when membership and donations declined precipitously and it faced a strong challenge from the Communist Party-USA, which actively competed for African American members. After World War II and during the beginning of the Cold War, White remained a staunch anti-Communist and stressed the need for racial justice in America to compete with the Soviets in winning third-world allies. Due in part to White's urging, Harry Truman ran on a civil rights platform in the 1948 presidential election.

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  • Image/Sheet: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8")
  • Mat: 55.9 × 40.7 cm (22 × 16")


National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Phyllis Fenner
Date circa 1950
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source National Portrait Gallery (United States) Object number NPG.82.197.
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Clara Sipprell (1885–1975)  wikidata:Q2975512
 
Alternative names
Clara Estella Sipprel; Clarabelle E. Sipprell; Clara Estelle; Clara Estelle Sipprell; Clara E. Sipprell
Description Canadian-American photographer
Date of birth/death 31 October 1885 Edit this at Wikidata April 1975 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Tillsonburg Edit this at Wikidata Manchester Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q2975512
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Adam Cuerden  
 
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Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian
As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth 8 June 1979
Location of birth United States
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