Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey | |
|---|---|
| President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
| In office 1909–1929 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Joel Elias Spingarn |
| President of the American Bar Association | |
| In office 1895–1896 | |
| Preceded by | James C. Carter |
| Succeeded by | James M. Woolworth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 19, 1845 Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S. (now Boston) |
| Died | October 24, 1929 (aged 84) Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government." Storey served as the founding president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving from 1909 to his death in 1929. He opposed United States expansionism beginning with the Spanish–American War.