Mary White Ovington reading (c.1910). Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division,
Mary White Ovington reading (c.1910). Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.Ovington befriended W.E.B. Du Bois in 1904, when she was researching her first book, Half a Man (1911), about black Manhattan. In 1906 she covered the Niagara Movement and the Atlanta riot for the New York Evening Post. Ovington played a crucial role in the NAACP’s evolution and stability. She recruited women into the ranks, mediated disputes, and guided the transition to black leadership. -- source link
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