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The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Mary Church Terrell, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family), [26] [27] Florence Kelley, a ...
Mary White Ovington was born April 11, 1865, in Brooklyn, New York City.Her grandmother attended the Connecticut congregation of Samuel Joseph May.Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women's rights and had been involved in the anti-slavery movement.
He founded a successful carpentry business in Holly Springs in 1867, and his wife Lizzie became known as a "famous cook". [11] Ida B. Wells was one of their eight children, and she enrolled in Shaw University. [12] In September 1878, both of Ida's parents died during a yellow fever epidemic that also claimed one of her brothers. [13]
Lampkin's effective skills as an orator, fundraiser, organizer, and political activist guided the work being conducted by the National Association of Colored Women (NACW); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); National Council of Negro Women and other leading civil rights organizations of the Progressive Era.
Historians have generally emphasized Terrell's role as a community leader and civil rights and women's rights activist during the Progressive Era. She learned about women's rights while at Oberlin, where she became familiar with Susan B. Anthony's activism. She also had a prolific career as a journalist (she identified as a writer).
She was the president of the National Association of Colored Women from 1916 to 1920. In 1923 she became vice president of the NAACP, and her last contribution was leading the Anti-Lynching Crusaders during the anti-lynching movement. [12] In 1922 Talbert and other African American women among the Anti-Lynching Crusaders raised $10,000 for the ...
Mary B. Talbert, ca. 1902 Co-founded Buffalo's first chapter of the NAACP in 1910, as well as NAACP chapters in Texas and Louisiana; elected Board member and vice president of the NAACP; served as National Director of the NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign in 1921; eighth recipient and the first woman to be awarded the highest honor by the NAACP, the ...
Florence Ruth LeSueur [1] (March 17, 1898 – June 27, 1991) [2] was an African-American civic leader, activist and the first woman president of an NAACP chapter. She was a champion of black rights in employment and education.