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Posted by bean | April 11th, 2004

April 11

1865: (Birthday) Mary Ovington, cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), born in Brooklyn, New York.

[Ovington] served as chair of [the NAACP] board from 1919-1932 and became its treasurer. Acting many times as a mediator between factions within the organization, she found herself in later years at odds with W. E. B. Du Bois who favored limited integration while Ovington favored full integration and was active in the fight for school desegregation. She wrote several books on black leaders and several novels.

1881: Spelman Seminary (later Spelman College) for Black women opens in Atlanta, Georgia.

1953: Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the second woman to ever hold a U.S. President’s cabinet post.

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