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Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was an American socialist, suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ovington was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Packer Collegiate Institute and Radcliffe College, Harvard. She became involved in the campaign for civil rights in 1890 after hearing Frederick Douglass speak in a Brooklyn church and a 1903 speech by Booker T. Washington at the Social Reform Club. This half-length photographic portrait of Ovington was taken in the 1890s by Charles J. Dampf, and is in the collection of the Library of Congress.Photograph credit: Charles J. Dampf; restored by Adam Cuerden