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Niagara Movement Summary

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Background • First African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. • One of the leading writers and activists of his time • Taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania • Member of the Socialist party • Chairman of the department of sociology at Atlanta University • Awarded the Spingarn Medal and the Lenin Peace Prize. Niagara Movement The Niagara Movement was a civil rights organization for African-Americans founded in 1905 by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois or better known as W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It tried to legally change criminal, economical, religious, educational, and health care issues. The organization demanded equal rights and that's what separated it from other African-American organizations.

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