Arthur B. Spingarn

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Arthur Barnette Spingarn was an attorney while in the army during World War I, spoke out against discriminatory treatment of Blacks in the military.

Spingarn attended Columbia University. He served as the NAACP's president between 1940-65, and chaired the associations's legal committee for many years.

In 1946, the Moorland Foundation purchased Spingarn's private Collection of Negro Authors; then combined them with Howard University's earlier holdings donated by Jesse Moorland to create the largest and the most valuable research library in America for the study of Negro life and history. The library was renamed the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.