While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as Inchan enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.Inch Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black - by law, identity and conviction and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. Forgotten Hero Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history. Aurthor Rob Rapley. Director Michelle Smawley. Producer Emily Harrold, Lauren Wimbush, Rob Rapley.