[4] Others active in organizing the NNBA included Scipio Africanus Jones.
[5] The NNBA was an adjunct to the National Negro Business League (NNBL), which had been organized by Booker T.
[2] The NNBA ultimately foundered due to its members' dissatisfaction with the NNBL's tolerance of racism and unwillingness to advocate aggressively for social change.
[8] The attendance of attorney Lutie Lytle at the NNBA's 1913 meeting made history, as she became the first African-American woman to participate in a national bar association.
In 1926, NBA president Charles H. Calloway publicly denied any relationship to the old NNBA.