Niagara Falls conference

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The Niagara Falls convention was a meeting of twenty-nine activists, held at the Erie Beach Hotel, Fort Erie, Ontario, on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, from July 11 until 14 July 1905.[1][2] It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement, a group of African Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter. Instrumental in forming the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.[3] The subsequent Niagara Conference was held the following year at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.[4]

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