Walter and Gladys Powell White family papers, 1890-2010.

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Walter and Gladys Powell White family papers, 1890-2010.

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The collection consists of the family papers of Walter and Gladys Powell White from 1890-2010, including audiovisual material, baby books for Jane and Carl White, correspondence, legal material, and photographs. Correspondence consists primarily of letters to Jane White regarding permissions for her father's estate. There are few pieces of correspondence between family members. Legal material contains birth certificates, marriage announcements, divorce papers, and death certificates of various family members. The photographs are primarily of Gladys Powell's family and the children, Jane and Carl.

1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes and 1 oversized paper (OP))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8001197

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955

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Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854199 Walter Francis White (1893-1955), was an African American civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931-1955. Walter White married Leah Gladys Powell (1893-1979) in 1922, and they ...

White, Gladys Powell (1893-1979).

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White, Jane, 1948-

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Actress. Jane White was born in 1922, daughter of Walter White, author and Executive Secretary of the NAACP, and Gladys (Powell). The Whites stood among the elites of the Harlem Renaissance. Known as the "White House of Harlem," their apartment in the fashionable Sugar Hill neighborhood served as the setting for a range of cultural and political events with such guests as James Weldon Johnson, Paul and Essie Robeson, Carl Van Vechten, and George Gershwin. After earning a...