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	Mary White Ovington
		Mary White Ovington was born in Brooklyn on 11th April, 1865.
		Ovington remained active in the struggle for women's suffrage and as a pacifist opposed America's involvement in the First World War.
		Ovington who retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1947 and in doing so, ended her thirty-eight years service with the organisation.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASovington.htm (1809 words)

	Mary White Ovington Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		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 United States.
		Ovington, who was a member of the NAACP's board of directors from the outset and served in almost every capacity until her retirement in 1947, often found that her lot was to be the mediator between various factions on the board.
		Ovington served on a large number of the board's committees and was generally available to fill the vacancies left by departed staff or board members.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mary-white-ovington (976 words)

	Mary White Ovington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Socialist Party in 1905, where she met people such as Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race.
		Ovington remained active in the struggle for women's suffrage and as a pacifist opposed America 's involvement in the First World War.
		Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1947 and in doing so, ended her thirty-eight years service with the organisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_White_Ovington (618 words)

	NAACP - Mary White Ovington
		Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York - July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
		Ovington responded to the article by writing Walling and meeting at his apartment in New York City along with social worker Dr. Henry Moskowitz.
		Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947 and in doing so, ended decades of service with the organization.
	www.naacp.org /about/history/mwo (715 words)

	Mary White Ovington
		Growing up in an uncompromising abolitionist family in Brooklyn Heights, Ovington found thrilling the stories of "the slave in his insurrections and his escapes from serfdom, in Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and a host of others." Stories of Abolitionists Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, and Robert Bruce also filled her childhood.
		Denounced in the press as "decadent" for her political association with African American leaders, Ovington, undaunted, turned her attention to the problem of lynching and to the increasing frequency of race riots in both the South and the North.
		Ovington’s accomplishments as a writer, activist, and educator continued throughout her long life.
	www.columbia.edu /~kss2008/6ovington.html (983 words)

	Mary White Ovington Summary
		Mary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York - died July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
		Ovington remained active in the struggle for women's suffrage and as a pacifist opposed America's involvement in the First World War.
		Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947 and in doing so, ended her 38 years service with the organisation.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_White_Ovington (1674 words)

	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
		Mary White Ovington was the first executive secretary of the NAACP.
		White was an outstanding propagandist and articles that he wrote about African American civil rights appeared in a variety of journals including Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, Harper's Magazine and the New Republic.
		The white population of Little Rock were furious that they were being forced to integrate their school and Faubus described the federal troops as an army of occupation.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnaacp.htm (3898 words)

	Mary White Ovington
		Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865-July 15, 1951), a descendent of New England abolitionists, devoted her adult life to combating racial discrimination and to enfranchising, improving material conditions and providing equal opportunities for African-Americans.
		Ovington decided that, since there would be prominent speakers for their spring meeting, they ought to meet in a large restaurant.
		Ovington was a part-time journalist for much of her life, contributing to The New York Evening Post, The Crisis, Colored American, Journal of Negro History, Survey, Outlook, New Republic, Brooklyn Eagle, Woman Citizen, The Masses (which published in 1915 he short story, “The White Brute”), the Christian Register, and many others.
	www25.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/marywhiteovington.html (1921 words)

	Mary White Ovington
		Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865-July 15, 1951), a descendent of New England abolitionists, devoted her adult life to combating racial discrimination and to enfranchising, improving material conditions and providing equal opportunities for African-Americans.
		Ovington received notoriety in St. Louis, Missouri as “the high priestess” of a “Bacchanal feast.” A Savannah, Georgia paper described the gathering as a “miscegenation dinner.
		Ovington was a part-time journalist for much of her life, contributing to The New York Evening Post, The Crisis, Colored American, Journal of Negro History, Survey, Outlook, New Republic, Brooklyn Eagle, Woman Citizen, The Masses (which published in 1915 he short story, “The White Brute”), the Christian Register, and many others.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/marywhiteovington.html (1921 words)

	MARY WHITE OVINGTON: FOUNDER OF THE NAACP
		It is hard to overestimate the influence of Unitarianism on Mary White Ovington, who was born at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln and at the end of the Civil War; and died long after World War II in 1951.
		It is doubly difficult to overestimate the influence of Mary White Ovington on Unitarianism.
		Some of Mary White Ovington’s last, shaky, handwritten letters were to Holmes, her friend and minister, who faithfully visited her and wrote her in the hospital (The Institute for Living in Hartford).
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/ovington.html (1719 words)

	The Extra Mile - Points of Light Volunteer Pathway
		Mary White Ovington and William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois were the two principal founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
		Ovington was one of the people that issued "the call" - the written invitation to civil rights activists of the time - to form the organization that would become so important in the fight against racial injustice in America.
		Disenchanted with the options a woman had in that time of marriage or living with her parents, Mary Ovington took a job heading the Greenpoint Settlement, a community in Brooklyn designed to accommodate the poor, often immigrants.
	www.extramile.us /honorees/ovingtondubois.cfm (3075 words)

	Mary Church Terrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mary Church Terrell (born September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee - July 24, 1954 in Annapolis) was a civil rights leader.
		She was an outstanding student and after graduating from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1884, she taught at a fl secondary school in Washington and at Wilberforce College in Ohio.
		In 1909 she joined with Mary White Ovington to form the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Mary-Church-Terrell.htm (613 words)

	African American Registry: Mary Ovington, a pioneer in Civil Rights. . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1895 Ovington helped found the Greenpoint Settlement in Brooklyn until 1904 when she was appointed fellow of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations.
		During Ovington’s investigations she met W. Du Bois when he was at Harvard University, and she was introduced to the founding members of the Niagara Movement.
		Ovington also joined the Socialist Party in 1905, where she met people such as Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2971/Mary_Ovington_a_pioneer_in_Civil_Rights_ (607 words)

	Mountain Light Unitarian Universalist Church \| Ellijay, Georgia
		It is hard to overestimate the influence of Unitarianism on Mary White Ovington, who was born at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln and at the end of the Civil War; and died long after World War II in 1951.
		It is doubly difficult to overestimate the influence of Mary White Ovington on Unitarianism.
		Some of Mary White Ovington's last, shaky, handwritten letters were to Holmes, her friend and minister, who faithfully visited her and wrote her in the hospital (The Institute for Living in Hartford).
	www.mluuc.org /ovington.htm (1147 words)

	Amazon.fr : Chroniques et points de vue Livres en anglais: Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mary White Ovington was born into relative privilege and comfort at the end of the Civil War and like other members of her class had a "hatred of dirt, odor, [and] ill health." But unlike most of her peers, rather than avoid these problems she dedicated her life to doing something about them.
		Ovington rejected the usual choices--marriage or domesticity with her parents--instead establishing a settlement house in Brooklyn; from there she moved to what was then a Negro neighborhood in Manhattan with plans for another settlement, beginning her dedication to the cause of fl rights and opportunities, which engaged her until she died at age 86.
		In 1909, the NAACP was born with the issuing of "The Call"--coauthored by Ovington--on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0471168386/reviews (1877 words)

	Mary Church Terrell
		Mary was an outstanding student and after graduating from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1884, she taught at a fl secondary school in Washington and at Wilberforce College in Ohio.
		She was particularly upset when in one demonstration outside of the White House, leaders of the party asked the fl suffragist, Ida Wells-Barnett, not to march with other members.
		Despite pressure from people like Mary White Ovington, leaders of the CUWS refused to publicly state that she endorsed fl female suffrage.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASterrell.htm (548 words)

	Mary White Ovington, 1854-1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The papers of Mary White Ovington were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs by Mrs.
		Carrie Burton Overton, Miss Ovington's secretary, in 1969, 1971 and 1973 and were opened for research in 1973.
		Mary White Ovington was born in Brooklyn in 1865.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /collections/hefa_323.htm (1112 words)

	Paper Page
		Mary White Ovington was the first person to propose action on the topic of racial equality (infoplease, NAACP).
		She was a Brooklyn native (Ovington 3), a Harvard graduate and spent many of her earlier years investigating race relations in this country (Ovington 37).
		It was practical because it called for a conference to be held in the near future, and it was visionary because it was a demand for social justice (Kellog 14).
	ns.headroyce.org /~us_history/nhoughteling/finaldraft.html (1725 words)

	African Americans - Mary White Ovington
		Mary White Ovingtonwas born in Brooklyn on 11th April, 1865.
		During the war Ovington supported Asa Philip Randolphand his magazine, The Messenger, which campaigned for fl civil rights.
		Ovington who retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in 1947 and in doing so, ended her thirty-eight years service with the organization.
	www.africanamericans.com /MaryWhiteOvington.htm (572 words)

	The Crisis Online
		And if we had a creed to which our members, fl and white, our branches, North and South and East and West, our college societies, our children's circle, should all subscribe, it should be the lines of Lowell's noble verse, lines that are true to-day as when they were written seventy years ago.
		Mary White Ovington, dedicated to racial equality, is credited with being the catalyst for the founding of the NAACP.
		The daughter of an affluent Caucasian family, she carried the legacy of a grandmother who was an abolitionist.
	www.thecrisismagazine.com /excerpt1914.htm (496 words)

	Clare Coss, Playwright - Writing and reading one-woman plays about Lillian Wald and Mary White Ovington, feminist women ...
		We are gripped by the conflict dividing Ovington and a furious pater familias who has come to ‘rescue’ his daughter from her own choice—to work for African-American equality alongside the charismatic Ovington, an early 20th century descendant of abolitionists.
		Mary White Ovington was not a dutiful daughter.
		She rebelled against the expectations of her family and became the first white woman in 20th century America to dedicate her life to racial justice.
	www.clarecoss.com /ovington.shtml (614 words)

	Georgetown Law - Published Articles (GLH)
		The triumph of Mary White Ovington's career was her involvement in the founding of the NAACP.
		Ovington was one of the few women in her day who had the courage to cross both race and class lines and become an active and vocal supporter of racial equality.
		This paper explores the work of Mary White Ovington, who was a visionary, a pioneer, and a courageous leader.
	www.law.georgetown.edu /glh/lamble.htm (327 words)

	The Feminist Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Available for the first time in book form, this is the courageous story of a woman who defied social restrictions to co-found the NAACP and to remain in the group’s inner circle through its first 40 years.
		Ovington recounts her association with such figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson, and describes her experiences organizing NAACP chapters in California, the Midwest, and the deep South.
		CAROLYN E. WEDIN is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and author of a biography of Ovington.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /feministpress/online/memoir/blkwht.htm (161 words)

	Mary B. Talbert to Mary White Ovington, Oct 1922
		Talbert wrote, "We are anxious that southern white women as well as northern white women shall join us" and hoped that "white ministers" would "lift up their voices" against lynching.
		The hour has come in America for every woman, white and fl, to save the name of her beloved country from shame by demanding that the barbarous custom of lynching and burning at the stake be stopped now and forever.
		The accompanying pamphlet will tell you that eighty three women have been lynched in America, white women as well as fl women, and we are asking that you give your endorsement to this country wide movement among the women to abolish this great shame and danger to the nation.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /lynch/doc18.htm (789 words)

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