I. Introduction

• •a major author of the NAACP's successful challenge to legal segregation

II. White's career

• •Youth



• •NAACP (1918-1941)
• •lynching
• •White, A. Philip Randolph, and Executive Order 8802 (1941)
• •Fair Employment Practices Commission (1941-1945)
• •war correspondent



• •Postwar civil rights campaigns
• •San Francisco United Nations conference (1945)
• •National Emergency Committee against Mob Violence (1946)
• •President's Committee on Civil Rights (To SecureThese Rights, 1946)
• •Executive Order integrating armed forces (1948)



• •the NAACP and the federal courts (1944-1954)
• •Smith v. Allwright (1944)
• •Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
• •Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1948)
• •Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

III. Conclusion

• •White's personal choice



• •White, the NAACP, the federal courts, and segregation laws