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William
English Walling, a socialist writer and one of the white founding members of the NAACP, worked at University Settlement at the turn of the 20th century, and offered some advice to his colleagues: "ake friends with these settlement people and listen, listen all the time. They've got a lot to
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English Walling was born into wealth in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Willoughby Walling, a physician who had inherited much real estate, and Rosalinda (née English) Walling. He had an older brother, Willoughby George Walling. His father's family were planters who had held
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wrote to him in support. She was one among a number of people, white and black, Christians and Jews, who were moved to create a new organization to work for civil rights. Walling was among the white founders of the NAACP; founding black members included such leaders as
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that occurred on August 14. Ethnic whites had attacked blacks, with physical conflict arising out of job competition at the lowest levels and rapid social change in the developing city. Walling wrote an article, "The Race War in the North", for the
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will soon have transferred the race war to the North." He appealed for a "large and powerful body of citizens to come to their aid."
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