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In 1895 she helped found the Greenpoint Settlement in Brooklyn. Appointed head of the project the following year, Ovington remained until 1904 when she was appointed fellow of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations. Over the next five years she studied employment and housing problems in black [[Manhattan]]. During her investigations she met [[W.E.B. Du Bois]] and was introduced to the founding members of the [[Niagara Movement]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/mary-white-ovington-9430955|title=Mary White Ovington|website=Biography|language=en-us|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref>
 
Influenced by the ideas of [[William Morris]], Ovington joined the [[Socialist Party of America]] in 1905, influenced by the ideas of [[William Morris]] where she met people including [[A. Philip Randolph]], [[Floyd Dell]], [[Max Eastman]] and [[Jack London]], who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race. She wrote for radical journals and newspapers such as ''[[The Masses]]'', ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' and the ''[[New York Call]]''. She also worked with [[Ray Stannard Baker]] and influenced the content of his book, ''Following the Color Line,'' published in 1908.
 
On September 3, 1908 she read an article written by Socialist [[William English Walling]], entitled "''Race War in the North''" in ''The Independent''. Walling described a massive [[Mass racial violence in the United States|race riot]] directed at [[African-American|black]] residents in the hometown of [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Springfield Race Riot of 1908|Springfield, Illinois]] that led to seven deaths, the destruction of 40 homes and 24 businesses, and 107 indictments against rioters. Walling ended the article by calling for a powerful body of citizens to come to the aid of blacks. Ovington responded to the article by writing Walling and meeting at his apartment in [[New York City]] along with [[social worker]] Dr. [[Henry Moskowitz (civil rights leader)|Henry Moskowitz]]. The group decided to launch a campaign by issuing a call for a national conference on the civil and political [[rights]] of [[African-Americans]] on the centennial of Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1909.<ref name=":0" />
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==Final Years==
Mary White Ovington was forced to resign from the NAACP due to poor health. In her eighties, Ovington spent her final years with her sister in Massachusetts and in 1951 died in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, at the age of 86. Ovington also wrote novels and children's books, including ''Hazel'', which told the story of a young Boston Black girl spending a winter in Alabama at the turn of the century.<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/59df1c20-7f70-0134-198c-00505686a51c | title= Hazel, (1913) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=June 13, 2018 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation}}</ref>
 
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