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Novelist

Walter White, who could have passed for white, chose instead to identify with his black ancestry, and ultimately came to be the most ardent protagonist in the fight to stamp out lynching in America, particularly after World War I. His most famous work was Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge lynch (1929).
Born in Atlanta and educated in that Georgia city as well as in New York, White worked as secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He completed his important study after two years as a Guggenheim Fellow. This work stood alongside two earlier novels, Fire in the Flint (1924) and Flight (1926). White's other work appeared in the leading periodicals of the day, including Harper's, The Nation and New Republic. White was awarded a Spingarn Medal in 1937 in recognition of his tireless efforts on behalf of all black Americans.