| LC control no. | n 50049905 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3529.V53 |
| Personal name heading | Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951 |
| Variant(s) | Ovington, Mary, 1865-1951 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Other standard no. | 0000000083551684 8220846 Q3296259 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1865-04-11 |
| Death date | 1951-07-15 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Newton Highlands (Newton, Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights Women's rights Suffragists |
| Affiliation | Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (U.S.) Columbia University National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Public officers |
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| Found in | Her Half a man ... 1911. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed March 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ovington, Mary White; civil rights activist, organization founder / official; born 11 April, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; studied at Harvard Annex (later Radcliffe College) (1893); was head resident at Astral model tenement, Greenpoint section of Brooklyn (1895-1902); arranged a program Social Reform Club, in Manhattan; received fellowship to study the conditions of New York City's blacks as a member of the Committee on Social Investigations and led by Columbia University professors (1904); planned settlement for blacks, Tuskegee model tenement, in San Juan Hill area, Manhattan (1908); joined socialist cause and became founder of NAACP (1909); chairman (1919-1932), treasurer (1932-1947) of NAACP; wrote short stories and novel on NAACP's history; died 15 July, 1951 in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, United States) Wikipedia, 9 Sept. 2020 (Mary White Ovington, born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, N.Y., died July 15, 1951 in Newton Highlands, Mass., aged 86; an American suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_White_Ovington> Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2020: in an entry for NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells; its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP> |
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