Edward White; Civil Rights Advocate, Scripps History Professor

Edward Arthur White, 76, a civil rights advocate who taught history at Scripps College in Claremont. A native of Porterville, Calif., White studied at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin. He taught at both schools and St. Louis University before joining Scripps in 1952. In 1959 and 1960, he was a Fulbright lecturer in Munich, Germany. In the mid-1960s, he marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama. At Scripps, he taught senior humanities courses and in 1970 was named the Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor of History and Biography. Always active in the Episcopal Church, White served as chairman of the Bloy Episcopal School of Theology at Claremont from 1972 to 1974. He is honored by the endowed Edward A. White Award, made annually to an outstanding senior in American studies at Scripps. On June 23 in Pomona of complications from a stroke.