Oswald Garrison Villard (1872 in Wiesbaden/Germany - 1949) was a U.S. journalist. 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

In 1910 he published John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After, a biography about John Brown. He was the son of the owner of the New York Evening Post and started his career in journalism working there. He was a founding member of the NAACP in America. He was a pacifist, and objected especially to the air raids carried out by the allies in the later years of World War II, saying-1... Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ... John Browns Oath Engraving from daguerreotype by Augustus Washington, ca. ... The first edition of The New York Post of July 6, 2004 incorrectly declared that U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry would choose U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt to be his vice-presidential running mate that day (in reality, Kerry chose John Edwards). ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... Pacifist may mean: an advocate of pacifism. ...

'What was criminal in Coventry, Rotterdam, Warsaw and London has now become heroic in Dresden and now Tokyo.'^[1]

He also campaigned against segregation and racism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. The Rex Theatre for Colored People, Leland, Mississippi, June 1937 Racial segregation exists where governments have passed laws either allowing or requiring discrimination on the basis of race. ... It has been suggested that Racism in Mass Media be merged into this article or section. ...

His son was Oswald Garrison Villard, jr., who was a professor at Standford University in Electrical Engineering. Oswald Garrison Villard, jr. ...

Sources

1. ^  History in Quotations, M. J. Cohen and John Major (Eds.), London, 2004, ISBN 0-304-35387-6 p 850