was on the conservative side in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Storey was, with James Weldon Johnson, the organizer of the 1919 National Conference on Lynching. In 1920 Storey led the NAACP to take on the defense of the Elaine Twelve in their appeals from convictions for murder and the death penalty. The NAACP raised $50,000 for their defense, hiring two attorneys to manage the appeals in Arkansas. The cases were broken into two tracks because of technical trial issues, and six men (Ware et al.) were retried beginning in May 1920 after their defense team won the first appeal at the state supreme court. Storey worked with the team as the cases of six other men (Moore et al.) later reached the United States Supreme Court. In its ruling in Moore v. Dempsey (1923), the Court set an important precedent for reviewing state criminal cases against the standard of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and application of Bill of Rights to state actions. Later life In the 1920s, Storey opposed the U.S. occupations of Haiti and of the Dominican Republic as the chairperson of the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society. He was also on the advisory committee of the American Fund for Public Service Committee on American Imperialism. He died in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 1929, survived by four of his five children with Gertrude Cutts, whom he had married in 1870. She had died in 1912. His children were Charles Moorfield Storey, Elizabeth Storey Lovett, Richard Storey, Gertude Storey Burke and Katharine Storey Donald. Legacy Writer and Editor Damon W. Root touted Storey as an historical role model for libertarian Democrats in a December 2007 article for Reason Magazine. Bibliography Charles Sumner (1900) in "American Statesmen Series." The Reform of Legal Procedure (1911). Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a Memoir (1911), with Edward Waldo Emerson. At Google Books. Problems of To-Day (1920), the E. L. Godkin Lectures delivered at Harvard, March 1920. The Conquest of the Philippines (1926) Howe, M.A. DeWolfe. Portrait of an Independent: Moorfield Storey 1845-1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Notes References William B. Hixson Jr., Moorfield Storey and the Abolitionist Tradition, Oxford University Press, 1972, . William B. Hixson, "Moorfield Storey and the Struggle for Equality." Journal of American History 55.3 (1968): 533-554 online. 1845 births 1929 deaths 19th-century American biographers 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American male writers 19th-century American non-fiction