{"id":232,"date":"2011-10-03T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:19:45","slug":"walter-white-1893-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/walter-white-1893-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter White (1893-1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/media_content\/m-5972.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Courtesy of the New Georgia Encyclopedia<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931-1955<\/li>\n<li>Advocate of Indian Independence<\/li>\n<li>Member of U.S. delegation to UN Conference in San Francisco, 1945<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Online Reference Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/envoy.dickinson.edu:2903\/articles\/15\/15-00755.html?a=1&amp;n=Walter%20White&amp;ia=-at&amp;ib=-bib&amp;d=10&amp;ss=0&amp;q=1\" target=\"_blank\">Walter White, American National Biography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Janken,\u00a0Kenneth Robert. <em>White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP<\/em>. New York: The New Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Before World War II the NAACP had exhibited only limited interest in the international dimensions of race.&#8221; (278)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Papers located in the James Welldon Johnson Collection at Yale University<\/li>\n<li><em>A Rising Wind<\/em>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Dorian and Company, Inc., 1945<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>White&#8217;s account of his information-gathering trip on the conditions of African-American soldiers in England, North Africa, the Middle East and Italy from January to March 1944.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At a London dinner party, White notes that none of the dinner guests made a connection between, &#8220;the American attitude toward Negroes whose skins were black or brown and the British attitude towards Indians whose skins were brown&#8221; (31).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;World War II has given to the Negro a sense of kinship with other colored&#8211;and also oppressed&#8211;peoples of the world&#8221; (144)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If already planned race riots and lynchings of returning Negro soldiers &#8220;to teach them their place&#8221; are consummated, if Negro war workers are first fired, if India remains enslaved&#8230; World War III will be in the making before the last gun is fired in World War II&#8221; (154).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Can the United States, Britain, and other &#8216;white&#8217; nations any longer afford, in enlightened self-interest, racial superiority?&#8221; (154)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The United States, Great Britain, France, and other Allied nations must choose without delay one of two courses&#8211;to revolutionize their racial concepts and practices, to abolish imperialism and grant full equality to all of its people, or else prepare for World War III&#8221; (154)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Man Called White, The Autobiography of Walter White<\/em>. New York: Viking Press, 1948.<\/li>\n<li>Papers of the NAACP, Library of Congress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931-1955 Advocate of Indian Independence Member of U.S. delegation to UN Conference in San Francisco, 1945 Online Reference Source: Walter White, American National Biography Biographies Janken,\u00a0Kenneth Robert. 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