George W. White Jr. ( 1903-1970) was born in Cedar Creek, Texas. He had so many occupations he gave himself a certificate to list them.  
1925 found him working as a cowboy on the Douglas Ranch in Vernon Texas. He worked as a veterinarian and learned leather craft.
He joined the army in WW2, where he served in Africa and learned to carve wood.  
After the war, he returned to Texas and became a well known rodeo bronco rider.
In 1940 White moved to Petersburg, Virginia where he worked for the FBI and became a barber.
In 1944 White’s father died; so he returned to Cedar Creek, Texas to care for his mother.
The following year he invented a secret formula, Whites New Discovery Liniment which he made in his bathtub.
In 1957 he married his wife Lucille Williams and moved to Dallas, where he sold liniment on street corners.  
White carved his first diorama in 1958 and embarked on creating a history museum which he planned to open in his home.
The White’s had a happy home in a shotgun house by the cemetery near State St. in Dallas.
In the 1967 George met master guitar maker Richard Wilkinson at a carver competition. Richard brought our friend Murray Smither to Mr. White and see the museum. George continued to add to his museum in his home until his death in 1970.  
Murray Smither visited Mr. White in 1968 with a curator from the Whitney Museum and asked Mr. White for a loan of the art for a show.  
George said “ No thank you I have been to New York and didn’t like it;and my art shore ain’t going there.”
After George passed, Murray got a call from Lucille and said the art could be shown.  
So Murray organized the first exhibitions of his work, not in New York, but Waco, Texas.
White’s work is rare, he made 77 drawings,paintings, and dioramas.  
White was brilliant in his use of two dimensional collage elements, paired with three dimensional elements.  
Undoubtedly White’s Emancipation House is his most well known work. See Black Folk Art in America,1980.
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