Walter F White
Walter Francis White
American
Walter Francis White was a notable American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. - AsNotedIn
Walter Francis White was a notable American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1893/07/01 | Madeline Ware White, wife of George White, gives birth to a son, Walter Francis White, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Born | |||||
| 1905/00/00 | The White family Sunday routing is prayers at 8:00 am, then a large breakfast and attending service at the First Congregational Church. | Faith | First Congregational Church | Atlanta, GA | |||
| 1906/09/24 | Working a mail route with his father near Peachtree and Houston Streets, Walter White witnesses a black man killed by a white mob. White will witness 6 more killings. Houston Street will be renamed John Wesley Dobbs Avenue at a later date. | Witness | Candler Building Atlanta | Atlanta, GA | Atlanta Race Riot 1906 | ||
| 1906/09/25 | A mob, including the locale grocer's son, threaten to burn down the White family home (lost). After shots ring out from a nearby home the crowd disburses. | Witness | Atlanta Race Riot 1906 | ||||
| 1912/00/00 | Walter White graduates from Atlanta University high school in Atlanta, Georgia. The tuition based school is only high school available to Negros in Atlanta. | Education | Atlanta University Center District | Atlanta, GA | |||
| 1916/00/00 | Walter White graduates from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. | Education | Atlanta University Center District | Atlanta, GA | |||
| 1917/03/00 | Spearheaded by Walter F White, Atlanta's nascent NAACP branch holds it's first rally. The hall was "so packed with eafer-faced Negroes and even a few whites that we had difficulty wedging the platform party through the crow to enter the auditorium." WFW | Vocation | Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium | Atlanta, GA | |||
| 1917/04/00 | The Atlanta branch of the NAACP is established with Walter F White as a charter member. | Vocation | |||||
| 1917/10/07 | Walter F White receives a letter from James W Johnson for permission to include his name as a candidate for an executive position with the NAACP in New York City. | Work | |||||
| 1918/02/01 | Walter F White arrives in Manhattan, New York City. James W Johnson will escort Walter White to his first day as the new Assistant Secretary at the NAACP. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, NAACP will be headquartered at 70 Fifth Avenue. | Work | |||||
| 1918/02/17 | On his way to investigate the lynching of in Jim McIlherron in Estill Springs, Walter White arrives by train at the Chattanooga Union Station (lost) and checks in at the nearby Hotel Patten, the "Million Dollar Hotel". | Work | Patten Towers | Chattanooga | |||
| 1929/00/00 | After letters of support for Regina Anderson, when she felt she is being discriminated against by not being promoted, by W E B Du Bois and Walter White, and a boycott of the library by White, Regina is promoted and moves to the Rivington Street branch. | Champion | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York City | |||
| 1955/03/21 | Walter Francis White dies of acute coronary thrombosis at his home in Connecticut. | Died | |||||
| 1955/03/24 | Eighteen hundred mourners attend the funeral services for Walter Francis White at St Martin Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York City, New York. | In Memoriam | |||||
| 1955/03/24 | The cremated remains of Walter Francis White are buried at Ferncliff Cremated Cemetery and MausoleumHartsdale, New York. | In Memoriam | Hartsdale |
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