Larry H., Look at "Contemporary African American responses to _Huck Finn_" (Larry Marshburne), in the Forum archives: 002199 96/05/06. Also, see my "The NAACP and Mark Twain", in _Mark Twain Journal_, v.36,no.1, Spring, 1998, where I show that "Mark Twain and the NAACP have a long and generally positive relationship fostered by the NAACP leaders' awareness of Mark Twain's respect for and sensitivity to Black America." A reprint of DuBois' 1942 contribution to the _Mark Twain Journal_ (then the _Mark Twain Quarterly_), "The Humor of Negroes" is in the same 1998 _Journal_ issue. I don't know of any evidence of Twain and DuBois (or other NAACP founders) meeting. The first documented Twain-DuBois connection is DuBois' extended quotation from Howells' memoir _My Mark Twain_ in the 1910 inaugural issue of the NAACP's _The Crisis_. Finally I want to acknowledge here that Alan Gribben never got proper credit for extensive help in organizing and editing my NAACP article. Judy Small also helped in the final editing. Thanks, Larry M.