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Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz legend, arrested in Houston for singing in front of an integrated audience, 1955
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White washing means washing (aka painting) your house with a chalk wash. It covers up the dirt and makes the wall look all clean again. In this sense it's also used figuratively.
Not washing your skin white or whatever.