NARRATOR: For decades, Walter White was arguably the most influential Black man in America, the face of the civil rights movement. Yet he was an enigma even to himself, as he put it, "a Black man ...

And yet if a black man commits a crime, we have more interest made for him than for a white." Mordechai Noah, New York Enquirer, Tuesday, November 21st, 1826. Narrator: In the early 19th century ...