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A firsthand account describes the origins of a national civil-rights organization formed in reaction to a Northern race riot and pervasive discrimination. After a magazine article warned of escalating race violence, the author and two colleagues met in New York with other reformers to plan a public campaign. They issued a Lincoln’s birthday call for a national conference and enlisted prominent supporters to publicize it. That call condemned Southern disfranchisement, segregation in public life, and violent attacks on black citizens, and urged a broad coalition of citizens to defend equality before the law. The narrative follows those founding meetings and the association’s first months of organization and advocacy.

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Title: How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began

Author: Mary White Ovington

Release date: January 18, 2019 [eBook #58719]

Language: English

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How the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People
Began

By
MARY WHITE OVINGTON
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
20 WEST 40th STREET, NEW YORK 18, N.Y.
MARY DUNLOP MACLEAN MEMORIAL FUND
First Printing 1914