American Bar Association rescinds admittance to three members.

The organization had admitted William Lewis, William Morris, and Butler Wilson in 1911. After finding out they are African-Americans, however, the ABA asked Lewis for his resignation in January 1912 and asked Morris and Wilson for their resignations in August. The action results in an unsuccessful protest led by white ABA members Alfred Pillsbury, Moorfield Story, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Boston Branch NAACP. The organization does not change its policies to allow membership to African-Americans until 1943.