... to participate. The three of them were the original founders of The National Association for The Advancement of Colored People, NAACP (Salzman 132-33). Later, more invited members: Charles Edward Russell, Oswald Garrison Villard, black clergymen Bishop Alexander Walters of the African A.M.E. Zion Church, and Reverend William Henry Brooks, minister of Marks Methodist Episcopal Church would soon join the original three ... the blacks involved in the "Houston Affair." Unlike the other committees, this one was unsuccessful (Johnson 323). Johnson then led the NAACP's effort to have an anti-l...

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