The reform of legal procedure. By: Moorfield Storey(March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929): Law reform, Procedure (Law) -- United States
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ISBN10: 1539677869
ISBN13: 9781539677864
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 22 2016
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781539677864
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 22 2016
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.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. Moorfield Storey was born in 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His family was descended from the earliest Puritan settlers in New England and had close connections with the abolitionist movement. Storey's father was a Boston lawyer. The young Storey went to the Boston Latin School and graduated in 1862, during the beginning of the Civil War. He then continued onto Harvard, where he was a member of the Glee Club, graduating in 1866, and then studied at Harvard Law School. In a speech almost thirty years later at Cambridge University, Storey discussed the mindset of the young men of his generation, stating that a great movement for intellectual, religious, and political freedom was just culminating...
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