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Founding members of the Niagara Movement:Top row, left to right: H. A. Thompson, New York; Alonzo F. Herndon, Georgia; unidentified; unidentified. 2nd Row, left to right: Fred McGhee, Minnesota; unidentified boy; J. Max Barber, Illinois; W.E.B. Du Bois, Atlanta; Robert Bonner, Massachusetts; Bottom Row: left to right: Henry L. Baily, Washington, D.C.; Clement G. Morgan, Massachusetts; W.H.H. Hart, Washington, D.C.; and B.S. Smith, Kansas.
The Niagara Movement, was founded in 1905, by a group of African Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter, who called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood. Their first meeting took place at Niagara Falls from July 11 until 14, 1905. The movement renounced Booker T. Washington'saccommodation policies set forth in his "Atlanta Compromise" speech which he delivered in 1895. Their second meeting was held at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, the site of John Brown's raid. The group came to an end after Du Bois started supporting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Delegates to the Second Niagara Conference pose in front of Anthony Hall on the Storer College campus in Harpers Ferry on August 17, 1906. The Niagara Movement was an early civil rights organization and a precursor to the NAACP. |
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