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July 11th

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  1. 1905
    The Rise

    Niagara Movement founded

    W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter convene twenty-nine Black leaders at Fort Erie, Ontario, after U.S. hotels refuse the group. The Niagara Movement demands full civil and political equality and a rejection of the Atlanta Compromise. Four years later the surviving members help found the NAACP.

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