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Lawrence Academy at Groton. Harvard University.
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Albert Enoch Pillsbury
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lieutenant was Pillsbury who drafted the bylaws of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1913, he resigned his membership in the American Bar Association when that organization rejected the membership of William H. Lewis, a black assistant United States. attorney and supporter of Booker T. Washington. In 1913, Pillsbury was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Howard University. In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.
He was the nephew of abolitionist Parker Pillsbury.
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lieutenant was there he delivered his speech illuminating, defending and praising President Lincoln"s role in ending slavery that became a small book, Lincoln and Slavery.
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In addition to being a member of the National Negro Committee, the precursor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Pillsbury was a member of the Boston Committee to Advance the Cause of the Negro, which in 1911 became a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In May 1917 Pillsbury was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the Ninth Norfolk District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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