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Black-and-white portrait of Walter F. White, a light-skinned Black man in a suit and tie, photographed from the chest up. He has closely cropped hair and a serious expression.

Black-and-white portrait of Walter F. White, a light-skinned Black man in a suit and tie, photographed from the chest up. He has closely cropped hair and a serious expression.

He looked white but wasn’t. Walter F. White was a Black journalist who used that “invisibility” to investigate 40+ lynchings across the Jim Crow South. He risked his life pretending to be what America pretended didn’t exist.
#VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching

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I was honored to read Governor @joshsteinnc.bsky.social’s Anti-Lynching Awareness Month Proclamation at Saturday’s ceremony honoring the legacy of Warren County farmer and World War II veteran Henry Andrews, who was lynched on June 7, 1947. #warrencountync #AntiLynching #HD27

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