John Lovejoy Elliott

From Philosopedia

Elliott, John Lovejoy (1868—1942)

In 1895, Elliott founded New York’s Hudson Guild. He was instrumental in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Elliott served with Norman Thomas, Roger Baldwin, and John Haynes Holmes in the Civil Liberties Union (1917), which later became the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

With Eleanor Roosevelt’s help, he started the Good Neighbor Committee, to give economic assistance to refugees coming from Europe. Elliott, in short, was a freethinker, a doer, and an Ethical Culture leader.

James F. Hornbach has described Elliott as being “a warm farm boy from the civil-libertarian Illinois Lovejoys and Ingersoll-supporting Elliotts.”

(See entry for Ethical Culture.)

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