Posthumous Honors
The town of Emporia honors him to this day with city limits signs on I-35 announcing "Home of William Allen White."
His autobiography, which was published posthumously, won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
Life described him:
He is the small-town boy who made good at home. To the small-town man who envies the glamour of the city, he is living assurance that small-town life may be preferable. To the city man who looks back with nostalgia on a small-town youth, he is a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense.The University of Kansas Journalism School is named for him. There are also two awards the William Allen White Foundation has created: The William Allen White Award for outstanding Journalistic merit and the Children's Book Award.
The city of Emporia raised $25,000 in war bonds during World War II and were granted naming rights for a B-29 bomber in early 1945. They unsurprisingly chose to name it after their most famous citizen, William Allen White. This bomber was sent with a crew of men to the island of Tinian in the South Pacific and was part of the same bomber squadron that the Enola Gay was in.
During WWII a Liberty ship was named for White.
In 1948 a 3ยข stamp was made in his honor by the U.S. Postal Service.
White's image is used by the band They Might Be Giants in stagecraft and early music videos.
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