The Afro-American Council (AAC) was established in Rochester, New York, in September 1898 by newspaper editor T. Thomas Fortune and Bishop Alexander Walters of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Fortune and Walters envisioned the organization to work as the earlier National Afro-American League (NAAL), which became the first national black organization created to challenge […]
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