Letter from E.B. Henderson to Walter F. White, June 24, 1918.

Title: Letter from E.B. Henderson to Walter F. White, June 24, 1918.
Repository: Mary Riley Styles Public Library - Falls Church History Room
Date Created: 6/24/1918
Creator: Edwin Bancroft (E.B.) Henderson
Recipient: Walter F. White
Description: Letter sent from E.B. Henderson included with the Application for Chartering the Falls Church Branch in June, 1918. Mr. Henderson states that he believed they could quickly double the membership registration from the original 35 listed on the Application. In the letter Mr. Henderson stresses the importance of forming this branch as they declare that Falls Church's "problems are many and interesting and this step helps us to begin to solve some of them." The Falls Church Branch would be important, as Mr. Henderson believed, and would provide an outlet for greater support from a national organization to resist displacement, segregation, slow violence, and structural racism for decades - as the Fairfax Branch of the NAACP remains to this day.
Research Themes: Tinner Hill
CCPL
NAACP
E.B. Henderson
Walter F. White
Black Organizing
Displacement
Slow Violence
Type: Letter
Researcher Name: Jacob Connelly
Relation: Letter from Walter F. White to E. B. Henderson, May 20, 1918
Bibliographic Citation: Henderson, Edwin Bancroft (E.B.). “Letter from E.B. Henderson to Walter F. White,” June 24, 1918. Falls Church History Room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library.