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Mary White Ovington was forced to resign from the NAACP due to poor health in 1947, ending 38 years of service with the organization. In her eighties, Ovington spent her final years with her sister in Massachusetts and died on July 15, 1951 in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, at the age of 86.
Mary White Ovington was deeply involved in two of the most important movements of the 20th century: civil rights and women's suffrage. Joining the civil rights cause. Ovington was born in 1865 in Brooklyn to parents who supported women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
Apr 23, 2024 · Mary White Ovington was an American civil rights activist, one of the white reformers who joined African Americans in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Born three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Ovington was reared in an.
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Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 - July 15, 1951), a settlement house worker and writer, is remembered for the 1909 call that led to the founding of the NAACP, and for being a trusted colleague and friend of W.E.B. Du Bois. She was a board member and officer of the NAACP over 40 years.
One of Ovington's most important contributions came in 1923 when, as chair of the board, she convinced the NAACP to direct its energies away from anti-lynching legislation (which efforts were being resolutely ignored by Congress) in favor of attaining equal federal aid for black and white public-school systems.
Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice.
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