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Article: The NIAGARA MOVEMENT.(civil rights worker W.E.B. Du Bois)
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- February 1, 2000
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"[The Niagara Movement] will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America."
(from a leaflet, 1906)
In January 1904, W.E.B. Du Bois attended a conference of prominent African Americans at New York's Carnegie Hall. The conference was organized by Booker T. Washington, a black educator from Tuskeegee, Alabama. Washington was recognized by many as the spokesman for African Americans. He had invited Du Bois to the meeting. ...