Fanny Garrison Villard

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Fanny Garrison Villard (1844 - 1928) was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Her husband was the publisher and railroad tycoon Henry Villard. Her son, Oswald Villard, was a prominent Pacifist and civil rights activist.

She joined the American Woman Suffrage Association. Villard was also a pacifist; she marched against the First World War in New York in 1914.

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