American Decades
"The Niagara Movement"
Speech
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: September 1905
Source: DuBois, W.E.B. "The Niagara Movement." The Voice of the Negro 2, no. 9, September 1905, 619–622. Reprinted in Foner, Philip S., ed. W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890–1919. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970, 144–149.
About the Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was a leading intellectual activist for black rights in the United States and worldwide. After receiving a doctorate from Harvard, Du Bois authored The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903), which established him as a leader in the struggle for black equality. His positions were in sharp contrast to those of Booker T. Washington, the most prominent African American of the time. Du Bois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and editor of its...
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1900's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington
- "The Road Problem"
- "What Is a Lynching?"
- "The Niagara Movement"
- Emporia and New York
- The Courtesies
- "The Corner Stone Laid"
- The Chautauqua Movement
- The Anti-Saloon League Year Book
- Ohio Electric Railway "The Way to Go"
- Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog
- "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
- The House on Henry Street
- "Bring Playgrounds to Detroit"
- Connecticut Clockmaker
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
