The Second Meeting of the Niagara Movement

In 1906, the black civil rights organization called the Niagara Movement held its second annual meeting on the Storer College campus. The organizers carefully chose the location of the movement's first meeting on American soil, selecting Harpers Ferry for its rich history, including John Brown's raid to end slavery, and Storer College for its commitment to education for people of all races. Speaking at Storer College, W.E.B. Du Bois declared that they claimed every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social, and would never cease to protest until those rights were secured, in a battle waged not for themselves alone but for all true Americans.

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