{"id":53311,"date":"2017-04-08T02:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53311"},"modified":"2017-04-08T02:07:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:07:37","slug":"walter-white-and-the-atlanta-naacps-fight-for-equal-schools-1916-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53311","title":{"rendered":"Walter White and the Atlanta NAACP&#8217;s Fight for Equal Schools, 1916\u20131917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/367230\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Walter White and the Atlanta NAACP&#8217;s Fight for Equal Schools, 1916\u20131917<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/history-of-education-quarterly\" target=\"_blank\">History of Education Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/history-of-education-quarterly\/issue\/412B1A49E56B8AC0FF418B76A973AB3F\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7, Issue 1 (April 1967)<\/a><br \/>\npages 3-21<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/367230\" target=\"_blank\">10.2307\/367230<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Toppin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Edgar A. Toppin (1928-2004)<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Virginia State College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1917 a delegation of negroes went before the Board of Education in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta, Georgia<\/a>, to demand equal facilities for colored school children. This marked the beginning of the work in Atlanta of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People<\/a>. The youthful branch secretary who sparked this drive, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Francis_White\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Francis White<\/a>, called this \u201cour first fight and our first victory and \u2026 we have only begun to fight.\u201d Despite his enthusiasm, Atlanta moved at a glacial pace toward parity in the dual school systems.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/367230\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/history-of-education-quarterly\/article\/div-classtitlewalter-white-and-the-atlanta-naacpandaposs-fight-for-equal-schools-19161917div\/FA460F1AF12384C84745ABEBFDB8E9D9#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youthful branch secretary who sparked this drive, Walter Francis White, called this \u201cour first fight and our first victory and \u2026 we have only begun to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,23674,20],"tags":[7488,26795,26796,3192,10520,899,2708,6786,1929],"class_list":["post-53311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-atlanta","tag-edgar-a-toppin","tag-edgar-toppin","tag-georgia","tag-history-of-education-quarterly","tag-naacp","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53312,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions\/53312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}