Clarence Mitchell. head of the organizations Washington lobby. argues: "The civil rights bill passed because we made it clear to Congress the only way to get back in office was to get a bill on the books." By 1960. he predicts. "We shall see colored Congressmen elected from the South." This militant attitude on politics and other matters dates back to the associations foundingan event largely credited to a white Southern writers indignation at a Northern race riot. Kentuckyborn William English Walling wrote an angry article about a riot in Springfield. Ill. in 1903. After seeing the piece in a liberal weekly. the Independent. a New York social worker. Mary White Ovington. and a leader of immigrant groups. Henry Moskowitz. began forming the NAACP.
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