Oswald Garrison Villard
American newspaper publisher
Died when: 77 years 202 days (930 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post.He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, 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, then turned to the right.Villard was a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League, favoring independence for territories taken in the Spanish–American War.
He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.
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