NAACP at 100 --White Folks Among It's Founders

Posted by Chuck Egerton / at Tuesday, June 09, 2009 / /

HOW NAACP BEGAN

Mary White Ovington

By Mary White Ovington
(Originally Written in 1914)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is five years old—old enough, it is believed, to have a history; and I, who am perhaps, its first member, have been chosen as the person to recite it. As its work since 1910 has been set forth in its annual reports. I shall make it my task to show how it came into existence and to tell of its first months of work. ... CLICK FOR MORE