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Oct 27, 2019 · 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.
Oct 17, 2022 · Social Welfare History Project Ovington, Mary White. Ovington, Mary White. in: Civil Rights, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Progressivism, Eras in Social Welfare History, Organizations, People.
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into a wealthy abolitionist family, she became a socialist while a student at Radcliffe College.
Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) was a civil rights reformer and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mary White Ovington, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1865, was the daughter of wealthy parents who raised her in the tradition of those men and women who had worked for the abolition of slavery in the ...
Mary White Ovington, 1893, at age twenty-eight. Photo courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Ovington’s early Unitarian training to think and question, question and think, emerged strongly in her late published and unpublished writing as it did throughout her life.
Mary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865 - died July 15, 1951) was an American civil rights activist, women's suffrage fighter, socialist, and journalist.
Mary White Ovington was a white feminist and civil-rights activist who was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
