Welcome to With Reverence Co-op’s Graphic Novel Book. Your favorite new choose-your-own-adventure reading experience aims to bring history to life through bold illustrations, true stories, and storytelling that sticks.
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Check out our inaugural selection.
Season I: Resistance is never Black & White
Season One: Hidden in Plain Sight explores the life and legacy of Walter F. White, a key figure in the early civil rights movement whose story is as gripping as any novel. A light-skinned Black man, White risked his life by going undercover to investigate lynchings, infiltrating white supremacist spaces to report from within. His existence alone challenged America’s obsession with racial categories, exposing just how unstable—and dangerous—those lines can be.
His story reminds us that race in America isn’t black and white—it’s complicated, coded, and full of contradictions. And that makes it all the more important to study, especially in a time when the truth is under fire.
Each season of Graphic Novel Book Club blends formats—from graphic novels and traditional nonfiction to short documentaries. You choose your path. You guide your learning. We provide the tools.
White Lies:
The Double Life of Walter F. White & America's Darkest Secret
By A.J. Baime
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to “pass” for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the seeds of the civil rights movement.
White’s risky career led him to lead a double life. He was simultaneously a second-class citizen subject to Jim Crow laws at home and a widely respected professional with full access to the white world at work. His life was fraught with internal and external conflict—much like the story of race in America. Starting out as an obscure activist, White ultimately became Black America’s most prominent leader, during his time. A character study of White’s life and career with all these complexities has never been rendered, until now.
Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
by Mat Johnson, Warren Pleece (Illustrator)
"In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going "incognegro."
Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother — and himself. Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant, Incognegro is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color."
Forgotten Hero: Walter White & the NAACP
"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 “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” 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."
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