num_pages: 367
description: This is the untold story of the founding of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Viewed through the life of cofounder, Mary White Ovington, a seminal feminist and social activist from New York's upper-middle-class, it focuses on her relationship with pioneering black leaders, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, and Mary Church Terrell, providing insights into race and gender in the early 20th century.
language: English
title: Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
titlecomplete: Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
genres: History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd