A new book charts the early years of Washington’s NAACP chapter
The NAACP in Washington, D.C.:The national NAACP office was founded and run primarily by White progressives. Washington was the fourth U.S. city to have an NAACP chapter — Chicago and Boston came before it — and, said Gray, was basically the first to have Black leadership., pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, served as the branch’s first president.“New York was a powerhouse, but D.C. was the center of power,” Gray said.
As with so many fledgling organizations, the early days of the NAACP in Washington were challenging. The city’s newspapers were dismissive. You might expect that from White-owned papers such as the Evening Star and The Washington Post, but Gray found even the Black press was less than supportive.A leading paper for the African American community at the time was the Washington Bee, led by the firebrand editor“He immediately dismissed the NAACP when it was first formed,” Gray said.
“The women of the branch were actually responsible for that monument not coming to be,” Gray said. “Women like Mary Church Terrell,— all these powerful sisters — said, ‘You know what, fellas? Step aside. We’ll take care of it.’ ” When we think of the civil rights movement, we tend to think of the sit-ins, marches and speeches of the 1950s and 1960s. Gray hopes his book will remind readers of earlier battles and the people who fought them.
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