#OTD Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (Dec 15, 1878 - 1955). Political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the 1st members of the NAACP. She traveled selling Crisis Magazine and organizing NAACP branches throughout the South. Critical of all-white leadership, she left the NAACP in 1916 and began working for the YMCA. She and Addie Wailes Hunton were sent to Europe during World War I to report on conditions for Black soliders, which were reported in their book ‘Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces’.
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