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Left:
Walter White – Fire in the Flint – Alfred A.
Knopf, 1924 from Trench Books, Maine.

Right: Allen Lewis – Original ink design on
cardboard – Wheaton College S-366

Walter White

The
Fire in the Flint

Includes a letter to Jacob Billikopf

and his classic Work
of a Mob.

Tolson adapted the novel into a play and
performed it with Dust Bowl Players

at the NAACP 43rd Annual Convention

 in Oklahoma in June, 1952.

We
include below a few items from the internet that
illustrate a bit about White and his novel. A
Georgia newspaper clipping illustrates the
entrenched racism White depicts by quoting those
who denounce his book. A letter from White to
Jacob Billikopf where White states “As a matter of
fact, instead of being overdrawn, I purposely
toned down the picture as I have seen it.” And we
include his The Work of a Mob from The
Crisis where it appeared in September 1918,
an account of some of the lynchings and atrocities
White documented for the NAACP.

Comments on
White’s

book range from :

“It is an
unanswerable indictment in that every
Southern man knows that every incident in it
could be duplicated in his own community.”

— Josephus Daniels,

   North Carolina

  
News and Observer

                 


To:



“To
those who are working toward a solution of the
race problem with open minds, it must appear
as but another proof of the belief that to
give the negro an education along other than
industrial lines is frequently worse than
useless.”

— Judge Blanton Fortson,

   Georgia Superior Court

Walter White

The
Work of a Mob

Includes his account of the horrific lynching

of Mary Turner and her unborn child.

Walter F. White

Time
Magazine Cover

Jan. 24,
1938