Oswald Garrison Villard

Oswald Garrison Villard (1857 - 1949) was a US journalist, pacifist, and civil rights advocate. He was editor of the New York Evening Post. Along with his mother, Fanny Villard, he was a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions. He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, but then turned to the right.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Military intelligence - a contradiction in terms.

- lecture, about 1920, personal report by a member of the audience

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