Moorfield Storey

Moorfield Storey
President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
In office 1909–1929
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Joel Elias Spingarn
President of the American Bar Association
In office 1895–1896
Preceded by	James C. Carter
Succeeded by	James M. Woolworth
Personal details
Born	(1845-03-19)March 19, 1845 Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S. (now Boston)
Died	October 24, 1929(1929-10-24) (aged 84) Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA)

Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government."^[1] Storey served as the founding president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving from 1909 to his death in 1929. He opposed United States expansionism beginning with the Spanish–American War.