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2. MARY WHITE OVINGTON CHOSE EDUCATION AND A CARRER OVER EITHER MARRIAGE OR BECOMING HER PARENTS’ CARETAKER…. SHE ATTENDED A GIRLS SCHOOL AND THEN RADULIFFE COLLEGE…. AT RADULIFFE (THEN CALLED THE HARVARD ANNEX),OVINGTON WAS INFLUENCED BY THE IDEAS OF SOCIALIST ECONOMICES PROFESSOR WILLIAM J.ASHLEY ……..

3. 1909 CALL CHEAT LED TO THE FOUNDING OF THE NAACP… BOARD MEMBER AND MEMBER AND OFFICER OF NAACP OVER 40 YEARS…… PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC ….. SHE HELPED THE INSTITUTE FOUND A SETTLEMENT HOUSE, CALLED GREENPOINT SETTLEMENT, WHERE SHE WORKED FOR SEVEN YEARS…….

4. Mary white ovington the founder of NAACP in 1909 Not only was Mary white Ovington the founder of NAACP, but she almost single handedly pulled in and kept together a lot of things like: Radicals Socialists Journalists Writers Newspapers owners Blacks Whites Jews Unitarians She wrote a lot of books while alive.

5. Mary wrote several books and articles including a study of blacks Manhattan. Half a Man: The Status of the Negro (1911) Half a Man: The Status of the Negro Status of the Negro in the United States (1913) Status of the Negro in the United States Socialism and the Feminist Movement (1914) Socialism and the Feminist Movement The Upward Path (1919) The Upward Path Portraits in Color (1927) Portraits in Color Reminiscences (1932) Reminiscences NAACP entitled, Walls Come Tumbling Down (1947). NAACPWalls Come Tumbling Down

6. The reason that Mary White Ovington is still famous because she was the founder of the NAACP. To Ray Wilkins at the NAACP, she wrote July 22 1942 as the organization dealt with the topic of segregation now promoted by W.E.B DU BOIS. I who have found that I am a dialectic materialist, believing in no absolute truths and that man’s progress, when he makes any, is not the result of slogans but of work, still wonder whether each issue that comes should not be carefully studied and decided not on the merits of publicity, but, shall we say, on the merits of the greatest good to the greatest number.”

7. In 1895 she helped found the Greenpoint Settlement in Brooklyn. Appointed head of the project the following year, Ovington remained until 1904 when she was appointed fellow of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations.