In it, he contended
that Southern racists were bringing the race war into the North
and that the only alternative was to revive the spirit of
abolitionism and to fight for racial equality. The following year
a group of concerned individuals, black and white, met in New
York City and their meeting resulted in the formation of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Those attending this meeting, besides Walling, included Oswald
Garrison Villard, the grandson of William LloYd Garrison. Jane
Addams, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, John Dewey, the
philosopher, William Dean Howells, the editor of Harper's
magazine, Mary White Ovington, a New York social worker, and Dr.
Henry Moskowitz. The Negro delegation consisted of W. E. B.
DuBois and most of the other members of the Niagara Movement. At
this meeting it was decided that the achievement of racial
equality must be the major target of their attack. In order to
achieve this goal it was decided that their immediate priorities
should include the enfranchisement of Negroes and the enforcement
of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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