leaders, including William E. Holmes. In 1899, White was especially active in speaking out against the lynching of seven men in Palmetto, Georgia which killed five of the seven, and again later in the year of the Sam Hose (or Holt or Wilkes) lynching in nearby Newnan, Georgia. White's life was threatened by a mob in 1900 for his anti-lynching writings, and he was forced to repudiate and apologize for an anti-lynching article he wrote. White's support for the convention movement redoubled after the Niagara Movement, and in 1906 he organized the Georgia Equal Rights Convention which brought together leaders such as John Hope, W. E. B. Du Bois, Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, Judson Lyons, J. Max Barber, A. D. Williams and many others. The organization was very vocal and wide reaching in its calls, advocating an end to Jim Crow cars on railroads, allowing African Americans to join the Georgia militia and serve on juries, better educational facilities for blacks, a more just judicial system, opposition to disfranchisement attempts, and many others. White, who was a conservative, delivered the presidential address, but anti-Booker T. Washington leader Du Boise delivered the keynote speech. In September 1906, the White wrote in the Georgia Baptist against the rioters involved in the Atlanta Riots. As a result, hostile whites threatened to burn down his printing office and home and kill him if he did not leave the city. White and his friend, George Sale, went to the mayor of Augusta to ask for protection. The mayor promised to try, but recommended White to leave the city, and White fled. White had nearly been lynched in 1900 and 1901, and fled to South Carolina until October. When he returned to Augusta, his tone turned against anti-lynching leaders such as William J. Northen, calling for inter-racial cooperation. Personal life and death He married Josephine in 1856, Josephine died in 1903. White's son, Lucian Hayden White, became associate editor and assistant business manager at the paper. White died April 17, 1913 in Augusta. References Sources Davis, Leroy. A clashing of the soul: John Hope and the dilemma of African American leadership and Black higher education in the early twentieth century. University of Georgia Press, 1998. 1831 births 1913 deaths People from Augusta, Georgia People from Elbert County, Georgia African-American Baptist ministers Baptist ministers from the United States African-American educators American educators African-American journalists American male journalists