On the one hundredth anniversary of
Lincoln’s birth a call was issued in New
York signed by prominent people all
over the country for a conference on the status
of the colored people.
The first conference met in New York May
31 and June 1, 1909.
The second conference was held in New York
May 12-14, 1910.
The second conference organized a permanent
body to be known as the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. The
officers of this association are:
National President: Mr. Moorfield Storey, Boston,
Mass.
Chairman of the Executive Committee: Mr.
Wm. English Walling, New York.
Treasurer: Mr. John E. Milholland, New York.
Disbursing Treasurer: Mr. Oswald Garrison
Villard, New York.
Director of Publicity and Research: Dr. W. E.
B. DuBois, New York.
Executive Secretary: Miss Frances Blascoer,
New York.
The work of the N. A. A. C. P. can be summarized
as follows up to the present date:
Four mass meetings and ten other meetings
have been held to discuss the status of the colored
people and efforts for betterment.
One volume of speeches and 6,000 separate
pieces of literature are being distributed.
A bureau of information has been maintained
which has corresponded with over 500 persons
in all parts of the country.
Six articles have been furnished to magazines
and eight to newspapers.
Two investigations into educational conditions
are in progress.
Effort has been made in three cases to secure
legal redress of grievances.
This Association needs $10,000 for its year’s
work. We ask for donations and we especially
want members who pay from $1 to $25 yearly,
according to ability. Anybody may join.
The future plans of the organization include:
The publication of The Crisis.
Co-operation with all agencies working for the
uplift of colored people.
The holding of mass meetings and conferences.
The issuing of pamphlets at the rate of one
every other month or oftener.
The publication of articles in magazines and
in the daily press.
The discovering and redress of cases of injustice.
The systematic study of the present conditions
among colored people.
The General Committee consists of the officers
and the following persons:
- [A]Miss Gertrude Barnum, New York.
- [A]Rev. W. H. Brooks, New York.
- Prof. John Dewey, New York.
- Miss Maud R. Ingersoll, New York.
- Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York.
- [A]Mr. Paul Kennaday, New York.
- [A]Mrs. F. R. Keyser, New York.
- Dr. Chas. Lenz, New York.
- Mr. Jacob W. Mack, New York.
- [A]Mrs. M. D. MacLean, New York.
- Rev. Horace G. Miller, New York.
- Mrs. Max Morgenthau, Jr., New York.
- Mr. James F. Morton, Jr., New York.
- Mr. Henry Moskowitz, New York.
- Miss Leonora O’Reilly, New York.
- [A]Rev. A. Clayton Powell, New York.
- [A]Mr. Charles Edward Russell, New York.
- Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, New York.
- Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, New York.
- [A]Rev. Joseph Silverman, New York.
- Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, New York.
- Mrs. Henry Villard, New York.
- Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York.
- [A]Bishop Alexander Walters, New York.
- Dr. Stephen S. Wise, New York.
- Rev. Jas. E. Haynes, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
- [A]Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- Miss M. R. Lyons, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- [A]Miss M. W. Ovington, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- [A]Dr. O. M. Waller, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- Mrs. M. H. Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y.
- Hon. Thos. M. Osborne, Auburn, N. Y.
- [A]Mr. W. L. Bulkley, Ridgewood, N. J.
- Mr. George W. Crawford, New Haven, Conn.
- Miss Maria Baldwin, Boston, Mass.
- Mr. Francis J. Garrison, Boston, Mass.
- Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, Boston, Mass.
- [A]Mr. Albert E. Pillsbury, Boston, Mass.
- Mr. Wm. Munroe Trotter, Boston, Mass.
- Dr. Horace Bumstead, Brookline, Mass.
- Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass.
- Prest. Chas. T. Thwing, Cleveland, O.
- Mr. Chas. W. Chesnutt, Cleveland, O.
- Prest. King, Oberlin, O.
- Prest. W. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce, O.
- [A]Miss Jane Addams, Chicago, Ill.
- [A]Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Chicago, Ill.
- [A]Dr. C. E. Bentley, Chicago, Ill.
- Miss Sophronisba Breckenridge, Chicago, Ill.
- Mr. Clarence Darrow, Chicago, Ill.
- [A]Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, Chicago, Ill.
- [A]Dr. N. F. Mossell, Philadelphia, Pa.
- [A]Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Miss Susan Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Mr. R. R. Wright, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.
- Mr. W. Justin Carter, Harrisburg, Pa.
- Rev. Harvey Johnson, D.D., Baltimore, Md.
- Hon. Wm. S. Bennett, Washington, D. C.
- Mr. L. M. Hershaw, Washington, D. C.
- Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C.
- Prof. L. B. Moore, Washington, D. C.
- Justice W. P. Stafford, Washington, D. C.
- [A]Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C.
- [A]Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C.
- Prest. John Hope, Atlanta, Ga.
- Mr. Leslie P. Hill, Manassas, Va.