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    Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was an American socialist, suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for...
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  • justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz...
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    Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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  • Ovington may refer to: In England: Ovington, County Durham Ovington, Essex Ovington, Hampshire Ovington, Norfolk Ovington, Northumberland John Ovington...
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    full-time position of communications director for SNCC assisted by Casey Hayden, Mary King and Dottie Miller, until September 1966. During this period, he travelled...
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    the poem came from one of the NAACP co-founders and noted white abolitionist Mary White Ovington. The first issue was typed and arranged by NAACP secretary...
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    Bois invited Mary White Ovington, a settlement worker and socialist he had met in 1904, to address the organization. She was the only white woman to be...
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    office 1914–1919 Preceded by Oswald Garrison Villard Succeeded by Mary White Ovington Personal details Born Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-05-17)May 17, 1875...
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  • NAACP Image Awards as the highest achievement. The campaign of #OscarSoWhite began as a protest after seeing the lack of people of color being nominated...
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    of the century by such legal devices as poll taxes, literacy tests, and white primaries. While attending Atlanta University, Johnson became known as an...
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    South Lauderdale and Vance, he was the fifth son of Robert B and Bessie White Hooks. He had six siblings. His father was a photographer and owned a photography...
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    (1996–present) Frances Blascoer (1910–1911) Mary White Ovington (1911–1912) May Childs Nerney (1912–1916) Mary White Ovington (1916) Royal Freeman Nash (1916–1917)...
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    invalidated state laws that denied African-American students access to all-white state graduate schools when no separate state graduate schools were available...
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    NAACP. Mary White Ovington chaired the memorial committee. Mary White Ovington, "Mary Dunlop Maclean" The Crisis (August 1912): 184-185. Mary Maclean...
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    Whites Sharing Grief about Racism (2013). His father, Fred Jealous, who is white, is descended from settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, related to...
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  • closely associated with the movement. Alain Locke Ferdinand Q. Morton Mary White Ovington Chandler Owen A. Philip Randolph Lewis Grandison Alexander Sterling...
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    resurfaced. Jimmy Fallon expressed, "the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing, staying silent. We need to say...
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    restrictions, and supported racial equality and self-determination. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government," he declared, "but when he...
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    W. E. B. Du Bois (category White culture scholars)
    supporters, black and white, participated in the founding, but most executive officers were white, including Mary White Ovington, Charles Edward Russell...
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    lynched after he refused demands to step away and yield the sidewalk to a white man. When he was four years old, his mother died from tuberculosis, and...
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    another socialist, Mary White Ovington, among others, to work with prominent black leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Mary Church Terrell...
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    Soledad O'Brien, broadcast journalist Ursula Oppens, classical pianist Mary White Ovington, co-founder of the NAACP and women's rights activist Maud Wood Park...
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    (1996–present) Frances Blascoer (1910–1911) Mary White Ovington (1911–1912) May Childs Nerney (1912–1916) Mary White Ovington (1916) Royal Freeman Nash (1916–1917)...
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  • (1996–present) Frances Blascoer (1910–1911) Mary White Ovington (1911–1912) May Childs Nerney (1912–1916) Mary White Ovington (1916) Royal Freeman Nash (1916–1917)...
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    issued a library card at the segregated public library. He graduated from Mary Potter High School in 1965 and entered St. Augustine College in Raleigh as...
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    was firebombed in reaction to an organized boycott of downtown Jackson's white merchants. The family had been threatened, and Evers targeted by the Ku...
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  • white liberals and activists, including Mary White Ovington, and concerned African Americans including W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church...
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  • a chilling effect on his relations with prominent NAACP members Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard. A committee was established shortly...
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  • (1996–present) Frances Blascoer (1910–1911) Mary White Ovington (1911–1912) May Childs Nerney (1912–1916) Mary White Ovington (1916) Royal Freeman Nash (1916–1917)...
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    St. Anselm's Roman Catholic School, P.S./I.S. 30 (also known as Mary White Ovington), I.S.259 (also known as William McKinley Junior High School) Angels...
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