Key founders of the NAACP included W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Ida B. Wells. When it was founded in 1909, the idea that white liberals and Black activists would unite to fight racism was radical. But the horror aroused in the wake of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot spurred the union.
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