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| Creator: | White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 |
| Title: | Walter White to Jesse Owens, December 4, 1935 |
| Date: | 1935 Dec. 4 |
| Description: | Letter from Walter White, NAACP Executive Secretary, to Jesse Owens, Olympic track star, dated December 4, 1935. White attempts to persuade Owens to not participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games to protest the political ideologies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government in Germany. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Letters (correspondence) |
| Subjects: | Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980 | White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 | Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 | African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York | African American athletes--Ohio--Columbus | African Americans--Civil rights | Civil rights--United States | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) | National socialism | New York (N.Y.) |
| Collection: | African American Odyssey |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | NAACP Collection, Library of Congress. Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C. |
| Related Materials: | Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0824001r.jpg |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0824002r.jpg |
