Niagara Movement

The Niagara Movement (English: Niagara Movement) was founded in 1905, when a group of 32 African American men under the direction of W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter met to full civil liberties, a end of racial discrimination (segregation ) and full " recognition of the ties that bind all people " to demand.

Among the founders of the movement were: ( Niagara Movement Founders, 1905) HA Thompson, Alonzo F. Herndon, John Hope, James RL Diggs? (not identified) Frederick McGhee, Norris Bumstead Herndon (son of Alonzo Herndon ), J. Max Barber, WEB Du Bois, Robert Bonner, Henry L. Bailey, Clement G. Morgan, WHH Hart, BS Smith.

The document had its origin in a secret meeting on 11 July 1905, when 29 African- Americans their deliberations in the Erie Beach Hotel in Fort Erie, Ontario, just across the border from Buffalo and Niagara, New York, began. Only the Canadian side took on African- Americans. After three days the Niagara Movement was born. The " Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles " outlined a philosophy and developed a political program to denounce racial inequality in the United States. The movement gave the adjustment policies of Booker T. Washington, the latter had set in his " Atlanta Compromise " speech of 1895, a rejection.

Their first meeting took place in the vicinity of Niagara Falls from 11 to 14 July 1905. The second meeting took place in Harper 's Ferry in West Virginia, where the attack on John Brown had taken place. This was followed by meetings at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts ( 1907); Oberlin, Ohio ( 1908); and Sea Isle City, N. J. (1909). After disagreements with each other and lack of financial resources of the movement put an end to. Nevertheless, the Niagara Movement was an important milestone in the African- American history.

From the Niagara movement arose in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.