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[W.E.B. Du Bois, full-length portrait, with Mary White Ovington following Spingarn awards ceremony, Atlanta, Georgia] – Historic Photograph Print

[W.E.B. Du Bois, full-length portrait, with Mary White Ovington following Spingarn awards ceremony, Atlanta, Georgia], [1920] — historic photograph
[W.E.B. Du Bois, full-length portrait, with Mary White Ovington following Spingarn awards ceremony, Atlanta, Georgia], [1920]. Historic photograph from the Atlanta collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Ovington, a co-founder of the NAACP alongside Du Bois, walks beside him in this full-length view, a pairing that reflects how closely the two worked in the organization's early years. The photograph was taken in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1920, following an awards ceremony for the Spingarn Medal, which the NAACP chairman Joel Spingarn established in 1914 to honor outstanding achievement by an African American. Du Bois, then editor of the association's magazine *The Crisis*, was a central figure in the movement, and the image captures the interracial leadership that defined the NAACP's early work.

Created / published[1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1920.Portrait photographs 1920.Photographic prints 1920.
NotesForms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available.
SubjectsDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Commemoration--Georgia--Atlanta. Ovington, Mary White,--1865-1951.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,114 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117364

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