Oswald Garrison Villard

Oswald Villard
Chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
In office 1911–1914
Preceded by	William English Walling
Succeeded by	Joel Elias Spingarn
Personal details
Born	Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-03-13)March 13, 1872 Wiesbaden, Germany
Died	October 1, 1949(1949-10-01) (aged 77) New York City, New York, U.S.
Children	3, including Oswald
Education	Harvard University (BA)

Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions.^[1] He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, then turned to the right.^[2]

Villard was a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League, favoring independence for territories taken in the Spanish–American War. He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.