On this day, April the 24th in 1931, O. P. DeWolf, president of the Houston N. W. A. C. P. was assassinated.
The 1910 graduate of Prairie View College worked as a real estate agent and school principal
before opening the Lincoln Center, the first exclusively black theater in Houston.
He was heralded for standing up to the KKK, which was growing in.
He fought against the exclusionary white primaries of the Democratic Party and pushed for the establishment of a branch of the National Urban League in Houston.
General services were held first in Houston and then in Livingston where he was born and is now buried.
