Ovington, Mary White (1865-1951)

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section

Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Fourth) (1912)

Mary White Ovington to Jane Addams, January 10, 1903

Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, November 20, 1911

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, November 21, 1911

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 10, 1912

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Membership List, April 9, 1920

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, November 8, 1920

Harold LeClair Ickes to Jane Addams, November 1, 1922

Emily Greene Balch to Mary White Ovington, March 16, 1921

Jane Addams to Mary White Ovington, November 26, 1927

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Birth Date

1865-04-11

Death Date

1951-07-15

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York

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Mary White Ovington was and activist and journalist. After studying at Packer Collegiate Institute and Radcliffe College, Ovington worked at the Greenpoint Settlement in New York City, inspired by Hull House. Inspired in 1903 by a speech Booker T. Washington made, she shifted into work with civil rights. In 1909, she helped found the NAACP. From its founding until 1947, Ovington served in different positions for the NAACP. In 1911, she published the book Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York, and would publish many more books in her lifetime. She died in Massachusetts in 1951.