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William English Walling (March 18, 1877 – September 12, 1936) (known as "English" to friends and family) was an American labor reformer and Socialist Republican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903.
Learn about the life and legacy of William English Walling, a wealthy white southerner who co-founded the NAACP and fought for racial justice. This article by Berry Craig explores Walling's background, influences, achievements, and challenges in the civil rights movement.
Walling, William English, 1877-1936: State socialism, pro and con; official documents and other authoritative selections-showing the world-wide replacement of private by governmental industry before and during the war (H. Holt and Co., 1917), also by Harry W. Laidler (page images at HathiTrust)
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 ...
8. Nov. 2010 · In the history of American socialism William English Walling occupies a special place. Born into a wealthy Midwestern family, Walling was educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard, but soon found a calling as a social reform activist when he learned first hand about the conditions of working people as an Illinois factory ...
William English Walling (1877–1936), a prominent socialist and journalist, was descended from wealthy Kentucky slaveholders. He was a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Women’s Trade Union League, the Social Democratic League, and the NAACP.
William English Walling’s background as activist, journalist, and iconoclastic socialist intellectual together with his steadfast loyalty to the American labor movement left him well-equipped to mediate between the AFL and its left critics.
