The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-04-02
PACKED CHURCH
HEARS. TOBIAS IN
h:i
TRIBUTE'TO
NAACP HEAD

services is found written in tn,
hearts of those whom he helped
to liberate from. the bondage O
second class. citizenship. DR.
Charming r. Tobias, chairman O
the board Of, DIRECTORS of the Ma
t1onal Association for the. AID.
vancement of Colored People, safe
today at the funeral Of the MACE
leader who, at the age of 81, dice
N OF heart art attack in his home or
March u. -. 49, :. .... =
Officiating at 'the service held
at st. Martins Protestant Epis-
copal Church i'm Harlem was the
rector, DR.. John johnson. The Rt.
Rev. w. B. Donegan, bishop of
New York, read the prayer and
blessing, with other members of
the clergy assisting. Loud speakers
carried the service to an over
flow crowd estimated at 5000 by
the police.
Led by Arthur B. Spingarn,
veteran NAACP president, Off
GERS, board and staff members
served as honorary paIlbearers.
Distinguished guests who came to
pay a last tribute to Mr.. White
included Gov. Averiu Hartman
of New York., New York State,
Attorney General Jacob Javits,
well known attorneys like Austin
T. Walden of Atlanta, w. Robert
Ming of Chicago, James Nabrit
of Washington, D. C. and John
Bolt Of CulbertSon of Greenville,
S. c.: labor leaders like James B.
Carey, George LIP Weaver and
Edward WEIGH, Congress of In
dustrial Organizations; Jacob Po-
tofsky, president, Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, CLIO; William
Oliver, United Automobile Work.
erS, CLIO; Boyd Wilson and James
Jones, United Steelworkers, CLIO;
and Walter Kirschenbaum, Jew
iSh Labor Committee; United
States government officials, Frank
S. Horne and Compbell Johnson;
Paul Robson, singer; John Cunt
her and Marc Connolly, authors;
Mrs. Helen Reid and her son,
Whitelaw, publishers of the New
York Herald Tribune; Mrs Anne
Hedgeman, assistant to the mayor
of New York; Mrs. Ralph Bunche,
Miss Stella Karn, Mrs. Louis T.
Wright and her daughters, Drs.
Barbara and Jane bright; Rich
ard deRochemont, film producer,
representatives of various organ
izations and many other indivi-
dualS.
In mourning were Mr.. Whites
widow, Mrs. Poppy Cannon White;
his daughter and son by a prev
ious marriage, Jane and Walter
Carl: his three sisters, Mrs. Eu-
gene Martin and Miss Madeline
White of Atlanta, and Mrs. Alice
eileen of Cleveland. With Mrs.
White were her three children by
previous marriage, Cynthia. AL
fred and Claudia, and her sister,
Ann Fogarty, the designer, who
was accompanied by her husband,
Tom. Also Eugene Martin, the
Martins daughter, Rose, Mrs.
Glenn's daughter, Dorothy; and
Mr.. Whites cousin, Mrs. Eva To-
bias and Mrs. Estelle GasSett.
RECALLS PRESIDENTIAL
MEETINGS ~"
In his brief eulogy, DR.. Tobias
recalled instances in which Mr..
White had served as spokesman
for delegations in conferences
with President Roosevelt, Tru-
man and Eisenhower. These con-
ferences, he said, had been fruit
full in that they opened the way
to expanded job opportunities for
Negroes, to the elimination of
segregation in the armed services
and to the curtailment Of racial
discrimination in Washington.
They also served to help "move
the conscience of America into
aggressive action against the
double standard Of citizenship
based ON race"
These achievements in "top
level conferences" are important
DR.. Tobias asserted, because
they illustrate the method of the
NAACP in dealing with contro-
versial issues growing out of race
discrimination 1t is a method that