Oswald Garrison Villard
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Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions.[1] He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, then turned to the right.[2]
Oswald Villard | |
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Chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
In office 1911–1914 | |
Preceded by | William English Walling |
Succeeded by | Joel Elias Spingarn |
Personal details | |
Born | Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-03-13)March 13, 1872 Wiesbaden, Germany |
Died | October 1, 1949(1949-10-01) (aged 77) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Children | 3, including Oswald |
Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Villard was a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League, favoring independence for territories taken in the Spanish–American War. He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.