Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington, lived from April 11, 1865 to July 15, 1951. Mary was born and raised in Brooklyn. Mary devoted her adult life to fighting racial discrimination, and providing equal opportunities for African-Americans that white people had. Mary was a founder of the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She worked for the organization for decades, fund-raising, promoting, through its rocky organizational period, and helping to make its agenda. For her many contributions, lots of people from the NAACP board honored her as “Mother of the New Emancipation.”, for all of her hard work and effort.

     The reason Mary is influential to me is because lots of white people just went to Harlem to have a good time and enjoy the entertainment, but Mary on the other hand, helped so much and just did it out of pure love. She is a very strong woman and i look up to her. She made a huge impact on the NAACP if it weren't for her the NAACP might have never been founded. Mary put so much time and effort into getting the same rights for african americans and white people had and that it a lot of effort, seeing as though everybody looked down on black people.

 The reason i chose to write about how Ovington was a key founder of the NAACP is because i think that it shows a lot about who she is as a person. To be a founder of such a big group that helped so much in that time period is just plain amazing. i also chose to put the quote "Mother of the New Emancipation" is because that is a very honorable name to get called my so many people, including W. E. B. DuBois. The words "new emancipation" are very strong because it shows how she was fighting for them so much in the new emancipation and it shows that she has an extremely amazing character.