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The Niagara Movement (NM) [2] was a civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of activists—many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the United States—led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. The Niagara Movement was organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement.
Meeting in July just across the Canada–US border in Fort Erie, Ontario they founded the Niagara Movement. [57] Organized so that no one man could dominate it, the group espoused a radical declaration of principles (authored by Trotter and Du Bois), calling for agitation for equal economic opportunity and exercise of full civil rights for ...
In 1905, Du Bois and several other African-American civil rights activists – including Fredrick McGhee, Max Barber and William Monroe Trotter – met in Canada, near Niagara Falls, [87] where they wrote a declaration of principles opposing the Atlanta Compromise, and which were incorporated as the Niagara Movement in 1906. [88]
The Niagara Falls convention was a meeting of twenty-nine activists, held at the Erie Beach Hotel, Fort Erie, Ontario, on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, from July 11 until 14 July 1905. [1] [2] It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement, a group of African-Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter.
As a founder of the Niagara Movement, Talbert helped to launch organized civil rights activism in America. The Niagara Movement was radical enough in its brief life to both spawn and absorb controversy within the Black community, preparing the way for its successor, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Central ...
On July 11, 1905, Hart, along with twenty-eight other black intellectuals, including W. E. B. DuBois, founded the Niagara Movement with the drafting of the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles.
The Niagara Movement was immediate predecessor of the NAACP, which was founded in 1909. McGhee served as its chief legal officer. McGhee served as its chief legal officer. In 1912, DuBois gave McGhee credit for creating the Niagara Movement, stating:
Murray was a founding member of the Niagara Movement, founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1906. [11] He was a prominent member of the movement, giving the opening address at the second national meeting of the group in August 1906 at Harpers Ferry. [12] The Niagara Movement was a forerunner of the N.A.A.C.P.