Walling, William English (1877-1936)

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Hull-House

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL)

Jane Addams to Ray Stannard Baker, September 15, 1903

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 3, 1904

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to Jenkin Lloyd Jones, April 6, 1909

Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Helen Marot to Jane Addams, January 23, 1916

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, September 21, 1918

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

William English Walling to Jane Addams, April 1, 1909

William English Walling to Jane Addams, June 8, 1909

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

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Birth Date

1877-03-14

Death Date

1936-09-12

Birthplace

Louisville, KY

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William English Walling was a millionaire, socialist, and social activist. Walling worked at Hull-House in 1897 while pursuing his graduate study at the University of Chicago. In 1905, Walling investigated social conditions in Europe, studying conditions and organizations, and meeting with socialist leaders. On his return to the United States he was a frequent lecturer on socialaism and labor. Walling was involved in a number of organizations, having helped found the National Women's Trade Union League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He ran for Congress in 1924 on the Progressive Democratic Party ticket, but lost. Among his best known books are: Socialism as It Is and American Labor and American Democracy. Walling died in 1936 of endocarditis and pneumonia.

Walling was married to Anna Strunsky, a socialist activist, in 1905, and they had four children before divorcing during World War I, in part over disagreements about the war.