The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After being denied admittance to hotels in Buffalo, New York, the group of twenty-nine business owners, teachers, and clergy who comprised the initial meeting gathered at Niagara Falls, Ontario (Canada) from which the group’s name derives.
The principles behind the Niagara Movement were largely in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of Accommodationism. Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, had publicly reprimanded Washington at a Boston, Massachusetts meeting in 1903. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois had also condemned Washington for his lowered expectations for African Americans. The Niagara Movement drafted a “Declaration of Principles,” part of which stated: “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults.”
The Niagara Movement attempted to bring about legal change, addressing the issues of crime, economics, religion, health, and education. The movement stood apart from other black organizations at the time because of its powerful, unequivocal demand for equal rights. The Niagara Movement forcefully demanded equal economic and educational opportunity as well as the vote for black men and women. Members of the Niagara Movement sent a powerful message to the entire country through their condemnation of racial discrimination and their call for an end to segregation.
While the movement had grown to include to 170 members in 34 states by 1906, it also encountered difficulties. W.E.B. Du Bois supported the inclusion of women in the Niagara Movement, William Monroe Trotter did not. Trotter left the movement in 1908 to start his own group, the Negro-American Political League.
The Niagara Movement met annually until 1908. In that year a major race riot broke out in Springfield, Illinois. Eight blacks were killed and over 2,000 African Americans fled the city. Symbolically important because it was the first northern race riot in four decades and because it was in the hometown of Abraham Lincoln, black and white activists, including members of the Niagara Movement, felt a new more powerful, interracial organization was now needed to combat racism. Out of this concern, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed. The Niagara Movement was considered the precursor to the NAACP and many of its members, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, were among the new organization’s founders.
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Is anyone actually surprised that Natalie Wynn is wrong and a lib? I feel like that was pretty obvious six or seven years ago.
I'm so out of the loop and to lazy to check the mega, I get chisme but she's really not worth keeping tabs on
As someone who defended her longer than most, I'm surprised at how much of an outrage her take caused. It was a bad take for sure, but I kinda thought the left had moved on from her a while ago. Half of my timeline is people QRTing her statement, even hexbear has a pinned post parodying a youtuber who was relevant like 5 years ago.
she even caught adam johnson ire, smh. feel like backlash is disproportional, cause people feel powerless, and at least they can discipline fellow "leftie". although i'm all for hating her sub, because half a year ago or so, there were a thread there earnestly (!) discussing heritability of iq, with updoots and all.
she on the other hand is just a shitlib (and envy made that obvious to me), same as all of new york crimes/dem party whatever, so telling her to eat shit is less productive than doing same to senators/reps/journalists (which is much less productive than talking to your local org abour rent strikes or
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if everyone aware she is a shitlib, further outreach is meaningless and largely mob hollering. (although her doing "well actually" for epstein was kinda wild)
She apparently still has a lot of patreon >.> Not entirely sure who her audience is, I feel like a more trad-lib would just be following, like, David Pakman or something.