- Collection:
- African American Odyssey
- Title:
- Walter White to Jesse Owens, December 4, 1935
- Creator:
- White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955
- Date of Original:
- 1935-12-04
- Subject:
- 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 - People:
- Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980
White, Walter, 1893-1955
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- 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.
Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_afamodyssey_0824001
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0824001r.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- NAACP Collection, Library of Congress. Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
Walter White to Jesse Owens, December 4, 1935
