Fanny Garrison Villard

Overview

Fanny Garrison Villard (née Helen Garrison) born Roxbury, Boston, MA December 16, 1844 (d. 1928). Nonviolent founder of NAACP, Women's Peace Society, 1919.

Quotations

"My inherited principles of Non-Resistance. . . seem as essential to me as the breath of life and paramount to all others." (Pref. To William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance; 1913 photo Budapest wikicom pd)