# The Crisis (magazine)/Volume 1/Issue 1/The N. A. A. C. P.

THE N. A. A. C. P.
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 fo/r 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 500 over 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: * Miss Gertrude Barnum, New York. * Rev. W. H. Brooks, New York. 0Prof. John Dewey, New York. 0Miss Maud R. Ingersoll, New York. 0Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York. * Mr. Paul Kennaday, New York. * Mrs. F. R. Keyser, New York. 0Dr. Chas. Lenz, New York. 0Mr. Jacob W. Mack, New York. * Mrs. M. D. MacLean, New York. 0Rev. Horace G. Milier, New York. 0Mrs. Max Morgenthau, Jr., New York. 0Mr. James F. Morton, Jr., New York. 0Mr. Henry Moskowitz, New York. 0Miss Leonora O'Reilly, New York. * Rev. A. Clayton Powell, New York. * Mr. Charles Edward Russell, New York. 0Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, New York. 0Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, New York. * Rev. Joseph Silverman, New York. 0Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, New York. 0Mrs. Henry Villard, New York. 0Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York. * Bishop Alexander Walters, New York. 0Dr. Stephen S. Wisc, New York. 0Rev. Jas. E. Haynes, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. * Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Brooklyn, N. Y. 0Miss M. R. Lyons, Brooklyn, N. Y. *Miss M. W. Ovington, Brooklyn, N. Y. * Dr. O. M. Waller. Brooklyn, N. Y. 0Mrs. M. H. Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y. 0Hon. Thos. M. Osborne. Auburn. N. Y. * Mr. W. L. Bulkley, Ridgewood, N. J. 0Mr. George W. Crawford, New Haven, Conn. 0Miss Maria Baldwin, Boston, Mass. 0Mr. Francis J. Garrison, Boston, Mass. 0Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, Boston, Mass. * Mr. Albert E. Pillsbury, Boston, Mass. 0Mr. Wm. Munroe Trotter, Boston, Mass. 0Dr. Horace Bumstead, Brookline, Mass. 0Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass. 0Presi. Chas. T. Thwing, Cleveland, O. 0Mr. Chas. W. Chesnutt, Cleveland, O. ​0Prest. King, Oberlin, O. 0Prest. W. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce, O. * Miss Jane Addams, Chicago, Ill. * Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Chicago, Ill. * Dr. C. E. Bentley, Chicago, Ill. 0Miss Sophronisba Breckenridge, Chicago, Ill. 0Mr. Clarence Darrow, Chicago, Ill. * Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, Chicago, Ill. * Dr. N. F. Mossell, Philadelphia, Pa. * Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, Philadelphia, Pa. 0Miss Susan Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa. 0Mr. R. R. Wright, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. 0Mr. W. Justin Carter, Harrisburg, Pa. 0Rev. Harvey Johnson, D.D., Baltimore, Md. 0Hon. Wm. S. Bennett, Washington, D. C. 0Mr. L. M. Hershaw, Washington, D. C. 0Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C. 0Prof. L. B. Moore, Washington, D. C. 0Justice W. P. Stafford, Washington, D. C. * Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. * Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C. 0Prest. John Hope, Atlanta, Ga. 0Mr. Leslie P. Hill, Manassas, Va.
    * Executive committee.