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  1. Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.

  2. He was one of the prominent, mostly white, Americans who gathered, six months after a bloody race riot in Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Illinois, and founded the NAACP in February 1909; in 1910 he was named its president, a post he held until his death.

  3. Moorfield Storey (1845–1929), a prominent constitutional lawyer and past president of the American Bar Association, became the NAACP’s first president (1910–1929). He was descended from the New England Puritans and Harvard trained. A steadfast champion of the oppressed, he also served as secretary to abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner ...

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  4. 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. Storey was incensed. “A war begun to win the Cubans the right to govern themselves,” he proclaimed ...

  5. 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. The fundamental principles of our government are at stake.”.

  6. This article explores the legal career and political crusades of Moorfield Storey, a prominent Boston lawyer and the first president of the NAACP. It argues that Storey's legal convictions and skills influenced his reformist and humanitarian views on racial justice, imperialism, and social progress.

  7. constitutional lawyer and first NAACP president (1910–1929). Moorfield Storey was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Charles William and Elizabeth Moorfield Storey; his ...