Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929
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Name (Latin)
Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929
Date of birth
1845-03-19
Date of death
1929-10-24
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Civil rights
Law
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Moorfield NAACP's first president, 2022:titla page (paving the way for modern day activism)
- The legal aspects of the negro question, 1920?:t.p. (Moorfield Storey, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
- in an entry for NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells; its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination" ( (Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2020:) )
- Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - Oct. 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader; he served as the inaugural president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a position he held from 1909 to 1929 ( (Wikipedia, Jan. 20, 2016) )