Niagara Movement members began meeting on the Canadian side of the
Niagara Falls on this day in 1905. This all-African American group of
scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together for three days to
create what would soon become a powerful post-slavery Black rights
organization. Although it only lasted five years, the Niagara Movement
was an influential precursor to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th
century.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
(February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963)
William Monroe Trotter (1872 – 1934)
Booker Taliaferro Washington
(April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915)
