Oswald Garrison Villard
Oswald Villard | |
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Villard in 1930 | |
| Chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
| In office 1911–1914 | |
| Preceded by | William English Walling |
| Succeeded by | Joel Elias Spingarn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oswald Garrison Villard March 13, 1872 Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Died | October 1, 1949 (aged 77) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Children | 3, including Oswald |
| Relatives | Henry Villard, father Fanny Garrison Villard, mother William Lloyd Garrison, grandfather |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions. He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, then turned to the right.
Villard was a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League, favoring independence for territories taken in the Spanish–American War. He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.