Six months later, 7 Black leaders and 53 white leaders – including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington ... that officially established the NAACP. The decision to create the NAACP on Abraham ...

Central to the NAACP’s efforts were founders W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey, a Harvard University graduate and trained lawyer. In the early 1920s, Miss ...