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Ovington wrote several books and articles, including a study of black Manhattan, Half a Man ( 1911 ); Status of the Negro in the United States ( 1913 ); Socialism and the Feminist Movement ( 1914 ); an anthology for black children, The Upward Path ( 1919 ); biographical sketches of prominent African Americans, Portraits in Color ( 1927 ); an autobiography, Reminiscences ( 1932 ); and a history of the NAACP, The Walls Came Tumbling Down ( 1947 ).
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Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Republican Party in 1905, where she met people including Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race.
Ovington and black
During the war Ovington supported Asa Philip Randolph and his magazine, The Messenger ( later the Black Worker ), which campaigned for black civil rights.
Du Bois joined with other black leaders and white activists, such as Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Henry Moskowitz, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, and Stephen Wise to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909.
Ovington and 1911
Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the United States in a Blériot XI in 1911.
Ovington and Negro
By May, 1910 the National Negro Committee and attendants, at its second conference, organized a permanent body known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) where Ovington was appointed as its executive secretary.
Ovington and United
Ovington Eugene Weller ( January 23, 1862January 5, 1947 ) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1921-1927.
Ovington and 1913
Earle Ovington and wife circa 1913
Ovington and Movement
Following the Springfield Race Riot of 1908, the Niagara Movement admitted their first white member, Mary White Ovington, a settlement worker and socialist.
Ovington and 1914
He married Adelaide in 1907 and they had two children: Earle Kester Ovington ( 1912 – 2006 ) and Audrey Ovington ( 1914 -?
Ovington and for
He lost election in 1920 for a third term as Senator to Ovington E. Weller.
Educated at Packer Collegiate Institute and Radcliffe College, Ovington became involved in the campaign for civil rights in 1890 after hearing Frederick Douglass speak in a Brooklyn church.
Ovington remained active in the struggle for women's suffrage and as a pacifist opposed America's involvement in the First World War.
After the war, Ovington served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as board member, executive secretary and chairman.
Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947, ending 38 years of service with the organization.
Home to the famous Ovington maypole, the tree for the maypole was fell and then erected by George Kidson MM, a former resident of the village who lived there for 83 years.
Built by Ovington Boats Ltd it is a demanding boat for experienced dinghy sailors, but considerable effort is made by the class to provide top quality coaching to new members to improve their skill levels.
The initiative was taken by Dr. Agnes Ovington of Eindhoven Municipality, Gedaref Public Organization for Water and Development.
Ovington and 1927
One source Ovington ( 1927 ) claims Jones was denied admittance to the University of Arkansas School of Law due to his race.
Ovington and NAACP
Mary White Ovington ( April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951 ) was an American suffragette, Republican, Unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.
He had been in London for several weeks when he wrote to Shakespeare on October 25.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.
He also wrote several books on the history of Number Theory.
In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.
" In July 1783 Mozart wrote to his father of " a trick of Salieri's ", one of several letters in which he accused Salieri of trickery.
Additionally, Pike wrote on several legal subjects and continued producing poetry, a hobby he had begun in his youth in Massachusetts.
In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.
Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.
" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.
He also wrote several works of Biblical exegesis, primarily of volumes in the Old Testament, which are preserved in excerpts regarding the Book of Genesis, the Song of Solomon, and Psalms.
He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.
Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.
He also wrote several shorter letters and essays discussing specific aspects of computus.
" Victoria's Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem, " Boadicea ," and several ships were named after her.
He also turned to prose and wrote several autobiographical stories, notably The Childhood of Luvers and Safe Conduct.
Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.
She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.
The Athenian author and soldier Xenophon in particular advocated the creation of a small but well-trained cavalry force ; to that end, he wrote several manuals on horsemanship and cavalry operations.
In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.
Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.
In the early years of his active life in the Church he wrote several exegesis.
English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.
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