what was it?
It was a black civil rights organization
Niagara Movement
was a black civil rights organization
who was the last state to ratify the 13th amendment UNANSWERABLE what does thirteenth amendment to the united states constitution mean? The amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress. when was it passed? January 31, 1865 what change did it bring? W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1935: Slavery was not abolished even after the Thirteenth Amendment. There were four million freedmen and most of them on the same plantation, doing the same work they did before emancipation, except as their work had been interrupted and changed by the upheaval of war. who was the writer mentioned? He was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. when was he born? February 23, 1868 where did he belong to? Great Barrington, Massachusetts where did he study? University of Berlin and Harvard was he part of any famous movement? Niagara Movement
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Niagara Movement [SEP] Introduction
The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of civil rights activists – many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the United States – 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, where the first meeting took place, in July 1905. The Niagara Movement was organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement. It opposed what its members believed were policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African-American leaders such as Booker T.