How does Mary May want to make a multiracial America? 

 

Mary May wanted to make a multiracial America by founding and joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She wanted to inspire not only women but other people also. 

 

What does Mary stand for? 

 

Mary May Ovington stands for women's voting rights.

 

How determined is she to get it? 

 

According to NAACP, In 1921 she wrote to a leading suffragist to request that a Black woman be invited to the National Women's Party's celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

 

What does she think the "the white problem is"? 

She thinks that the white problem was some of them, oppressed other races. 

 

How does Mary May feel about feminism?  

 

Mary May felt that she need to fight for the black women and pressured them not to give in to any compromise that would disenfranchise half of the black voters.
 

WORK CITED:

 

NAACP. "Mary White Ovington." NAACP, 11 May 2021, naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/mary-white-ovington#:%7E:text=Ovington%20combined%20her%20civil%20rights,women%20the%20right%20to%20vote.

 

"Mary White Ovington" (2014). Mary White Ovington (1865-1951): Settlement house founder and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved [date accessed] from https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/ovington-mary-white/

 

Senghas, Dorothy, and Catherine Senghas. "Mary White Ovington." Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, 17 Sept. 2002, uudb.org/articles/marywhiteovington.html.

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After the war, Ovington served the NAACP as a board member, executive secretary, and chairman. Ovington was a woman who founded and joined the NAACP. She got folks to join her as well. Many believed that the NAACP was joined by African Americans and that is false. Ovington was not an African American, she was white. She was a white woman who had the fortitude and the tenacity to come forth and do this. That is what made her significant to the NAACP. Ovington had the attitude and fortitude to do something like this. This is how the NAACP started. She wanted to work together with a bring a multicultural group that consists of only women. Ovington was determined and had the courage to do so. Not many other women can say this. She inspired other women to be brave and if you think something is right go ahead and do so. You never know what you contribute can do. It can have a huge impact on the world. NAACP fought a long legal battle against segregation and racial discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting and transportation. They appealed to the Supreme Court to rule that several laws passed by southern states were unconstitutional and won three important judgments between 1915-1923 concerning voting rights and housing.

June 1934, Mary White Ovington reached out and gave speeches to 14 different colleges. Her goal was to show the youth that the NAACP association was made up of blacks and whites. Ovington wanted black youths to understand there were whites who hated race oppression. During her speeches, Ovington would show the geography of all the NAACP location branches and how far the association has come. "They should know the power the race has gained" - Mary White Ovington.

 

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/ovington-mary-white/

 

 

Determined that her further settlement work would be among black people, Ovington sought advice from the head of Greenwich House, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, whom she considered "one of my wisest settlement friends." Simkhovitch arranged a fellowship from Greenwich House for Ovington to study the status of blacks in New York City. Based on this study and observations over subsequent years, Ovington wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York, 1911. In this, she concluded that the white prejudice denied blacks the opportunities they needed to develop their capacities. "If we deny full expression to a race," she wrote, "if we restrict its education, stifle its intellectual and aesthetic impulses, we make it impossible fairly to gauge its ability."

 

https://uudb.org/articles/marywhiteovington.html

 

 

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