Walter White’s Undercover Investigations for the NAACP | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how civil rights leader and NAACP president Walter White first came to work for the NAACP and the investigative work that he was able to carry out as a light-skinned Black man in these clips adapted from Forgotten Hero | American Experience. White’s ability to move within White society allowed him to expose crimes against Black citizens, including the violent lynching of Jim McIlheron in Tennessee.