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People in the News

Friday, July 11, 2025

People in the News

Friday, July 11, 2025

Black History Fact for July 11: W.E.B. DuBois

The Niagara Movement was formed and led by W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter. The meeting was held on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls on July 11, 1905. This movement was a call to abolish slavery and segregation, and it opposed Booker T. Washington’s accommodation policies laid out a decade earlier.

DuBois stated “We want full manhood suffrage and we want it now…We are men! We want to be treated as men. And we shall win.” There were 29 men who made up the Niagara movement, which was named so because of location and “mighty current” sought for protest and change.

After the Niagara Movement disbanded, eventually several of the members joined others to form the NAACP in 1911.

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