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 Afro-American Council at 1902 meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. President Alexander Walters is front Center, with Ida B. Wells on his left, Booker T. Washington on his right. William H. Steward, T. Thomas Fortune, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Emmett Jay Scott are all in the second row. | |
| Formation | 1898 |
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| Dissolved | 1907 |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose | African-American civil rights |
Presidents | Alexander Walters (1898–1902, 1905–07) Timothy Thomas Fortune (1902–04) William A. Pledger (1903 acting) William Henry Steward (1904–05) |
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The National Afro-American Council was the first nationwide civil rights organization in the United States, created in 1898 in Rochester, New York. Before its dissolution a decade later, the Council provided both the first national arena for discussion of critical issues for African Americans and a training ground for some of the nation's most famous civil rights leaders in the 1910s, 1920s, and beyond.