This is the untold story of the founding of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Viewed through the life of cofounder, Mary White Ovington, a seminal feminist and social activist from New York's upper-middle-class, it focuses on her relationship with pioneering black leaders, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, and Mary Church Terrell, providing insights into race and gender in the early 20th century.
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This is the untold story of the founding of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Viewed through the life of cofounder, Mary White Ovington, a seminal feminist and social activist from New York's upper-middle-class, it focuses on her relationship with pioneering black leaders, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, and Mary Church Terrell, providing insights into race and gender in the early 20th century.
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