10. The Niagara Movement held its second annual meeting at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, and members walked to see where John Brown had made his stand, taking off their shoes in reverence. What was the Niagara Movement?
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Answer:
a black civil rights organization
The Niagara Movement, which met first in 1905 at Niagara Falls, was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois, a leading African-American writer and scholar in his day, and William Monroe Trotter, a black businessman, editor, and spokesman for black rights. An organization to promote black civil rights, it wanted to end segregation and confront whites rather than be conciliatory, bringing a change as great as the "mighty current" of the Niagara River.
The movement held its 1906 meeting on Aug. 15-18 at Storer College, now within the land owned by Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Those attending could walk to the arsenal where John Brown made his stand. When they got there, they took their shoes off in reverence. DuBois said the convention was "one of the greatest meetings that American Negroes ever held."
The Niagara Movement soon died out, though. Storer College refused to let the members back, saying there was friction after the first meeting from its supporters. The group met in Boston, but was having its own problems over whether or not to let women join. That was solved, but continuing problems made the movement decline. In 1910, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded and grew to become the leading representative of blacks, spelling the final end of the Niagara Movement.