Founding members of the Niagara Movement

Founding members of the Niagara Movement, 1905

Founding members of the Niagara Movement, 1905

Source: From the New York Public Library

The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, near Fort Erie, Ontario, was where the first meeting took place in July 1905.