Verina Morton Jones

Verina Harris Morton Jones (January 28, 1865 – February 3, 1943) was an American physician, suffragist and clubwoman.

Jones was involved with numerous civic and activist organizations and was elected to the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Verina Morton Jones was born on January 28, 1865, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Willam D. and Kittie Stanley.

She was active in the Kings County Medical Society and the National Association of Colored Women, directing their Mother's Club in Brooklyn.

She conducted programs to educate voters, documented racial discrimination at polling places, and testified before investigative committees of Congress.

[5] The settlement house also sponsored debate and choral clubs and offered classes in sewing, carpentry, folk dancing, cooking, and embroidery.

[1] In 1911, Jones, along with Mary White Ovington, was part of a group of five Brooklynites who were active in the Urban League, which was the result of a merger between the Committee for Improving the Industrial Conditions of Negroes, the Committee on Urban Conditions among Negros, and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women.