NAACP

The Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1913, three years after the national organization was created in New York. It was one of the first west of the Mississippi.

Seattle hairdresser Letitia Graves was the founding president. The publisher of the Seattle Republican newspaper, Horace Cayton, was the first vice president.

— Jesse Tarbert