Rachel Dolezal

[Benton]

(06-14-2015, 04:23 PM)Bmoreblitz Wrote: Wasn't the group started by a white person or group anyways?

It was a mix of people. Several were black, several were white. I think the majority were white.

(06-15-2015, 01:58 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Republicans

Quote:AACP Founder Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into a wealthy abolitionist family, she became a socialist while a student at Radcliffe College.

Quote:NAACP Leader Oswald Garrison Villard

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949), publisher of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, was the son of railroad tycoon Henry Villard and grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. He used his fortune to promote liberal causes, including women’s suffrage, anti-imperialism, and Negro uplift.

Quote:Social Worker and Civic Leader Henry Moskowitz

Henry Moskowitz (1879–1936), a Romanian Jewish émigré, attended the University Settlement’s boys’ club as a youth. There he met fellow socialist William English Walling, with whom he traveled to Eastern Europe in 1905 to study social and economic conditions.

Quote:William English Walling, a NAACP Founder

William English Walling (1877–1936), a prominent socialist and journalist, was descended from wealthy Kentucky slaveholders. He was a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Women’s Trade Union League, the Social Democratic League, and the NAACP.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/founding-and-early-years.html

I'd go on, but I'm guessing this is going to have some comment about Progressives. Or something.