Mary Dunlop Maclean

In 1907, Maclean edited a collection of Abraham Lincoln's letters and speeches.^[2][3] Soon after, Maclean volunteered^[4] as managing editor of The Crisis beginning in 1909, working with W. E. B. Du Bois as an editor,^[5] after the First National Negro Conference. She was the only woman on the magazine's initial six-person editorial board.^[6] She used her skills as a journalist to conduct interviews and report to the NAACP on a lynching in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.^[7]

Maclean worked simultaneously on the Sunday staff at the New York Times, writing features such as a report from Sicily after the 1908 Messina earthquake.^[8][9] She used the pseudonym "Judith Herz" for at least one article in The New Era (a profile of the Yiddish-language playwright, Jacob Gordin).^[10]

Maclean died, in 1912, from complications following surgery. She was 38 years old.

The staff of The Crisis established a memorial fund in her name, used to fund publications of the NAACP.^[11] Mary White Ovington chaired the memorial committee.^[12]