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Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) was a lawyer, anti-imperialist, and civil rights leader in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the founding president of the NAACP and fought for racial equality, self-determination, and freedom of contract.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of James Moorfield Storey On june 15, 1898, when Moorfield Storey, A.B. 1866, stood up to speak in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, the United States had just invaded the Philippines, promising the inhabitants their freedom—only to quickly renege on its word.
Moorfield Storey, the NAACP’s first president and a constitutional attorney, argued the case before the Supreme Court in April 1917. The Court reversed the decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, ruling that the Louisville ordinance violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government."
Title Moorfield Storey papers, Summary Correspondence, articles, lecture notes, petitions, press releases, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Storey's years as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and his interest in the Anti-Imperialist League.
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to Storey’s biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., he had a worldview that embodied “pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government.”
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Moorfield Storey (1845–1929) On June 15, 1898, in Faneuil Hall, Boston, the civil rights attorney Moorfield Storey proclaimed, “A war begun to win the Cubans the right to govern themselves should not be made an excuse for extending our sway over other alien peoples.
