 Eartha White helped the Jacksonville community through the Clara White Mission (CWM) during racial segregation and African-Americans were the primary beneficiaries of her work.Eartha's mother, Clara White, died in 1920, but Eartha continued their "mission work", and at the height of the great depression the operation grew so large, it had to be moved from its residential location.Eartha White obtained the closed Globe Theatre Building on West Ashley Street, and the facility was dedicated in her mother's memory.