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William English Walling (March 18, 1877 – September 12, 1936) [1] (known as "English" to friends and family) was an American labor reformer and Socialist Republican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903.
In early September 1908, American socialist William English Walling published an article titled "The Race War in the North" in The Independent (New York). [3] He described the massive white race riot directed at Black residents in Springfield, Illinois, hometown of the late President Abraham Lincoln. The riot had resulted in seven deaths, the ...
The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Mary Church Terrell, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family), [27] [28] Florence Kelley, a ...
William Hayden English (August 27, 1822 – February 7, 1896) was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1853 to 1861 and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1880. English retired from the House in 1861, but remained involved in party affairs.
Residents between 1900 and 1907 included socialist writer William English Walling, a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Pulitzer Prize-winner Ernest Poole; Howard Brubaker, who later became a columnist for The New Yorker; writer Arthur Bullard; journalist Hamilton Holt; and author Walter Weyl, a founding ...
In 1906, Strunsky and her sister traveled to Russia as correspondents for William English Walling, whom she later married. After returning to the United States, they reported on issues like the Springfield race riot of 1908, and Walling co-founded the NAACP. They had four children before separating.
In January 1919, authors C.E. Russell and William English Walling traveled to Europe under the banner of the Social Democratic League in an effort to advance the idea among French and British socialists that anti-imperialism and American war aims were not incompatible. [8]
William Walling may refer to: William English Walling, American socialist and labor reformer and co-founder of the NAACP; William H. Walling, Medal of Honor recipient; Will Walling (1872–1932), American actor in 1920s films and stage, sometimes credited as William Walling