Niagara Falls conference
The Niagara Falls convention was a meeting of 29 people in the Erie Beach Hotel, Fort Erie, Ontario. The meeting was from July 11 until 14 July 1905.[1][2] It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement. This movement was led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter. They hepde form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.[3] The next Niagara Conference was held the next year at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.[4]
References
- ↑ African American Registry: The Niagara Movement founded. aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1005/The_Niagara_Movement_founded (6 April 2004).
- ↑ Coard, Michael (6 July 2022). "The Niagara Movement, a precursor to NAACP, fought for economic and civil rights | Michael Coard". Pennsylvania Capital-Star. https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/the-niagara-movement-a-precursor-to-naacp-fought-for-economic-and-civil-rights-michael-coard/.
- ↑ Sernett, Milton C.. Bound for the promised land : African American religion and the great migration (1997)Durham, NC : Duke University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8223-1984-9.
- ↑ The Niagara Movement at Storer College Historical Marker (in en). hmdb.org. Retrieved 10 February 2024.