Awards and Honors
- 1927 – White received the Harmon Award (William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes) for his book Rope and Faggot: An Interview with Judge Lynch, a study of lynching.
- 1937 – Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, for outstanding achievement by an African American.
- 2002 – Molefi Kete Asante listed Walter Francis White on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
- 2009 – White was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
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