What Is The 1905 Niagara Movement

Joshua Brenner Brenner 1
Professor Avenmarg
10, November, 2o
Niagara Movement of 1905 Niagara Movements

During the Civil Right Movement Blacks demanded equal rights and openly opposed all laws that treat Blacks in any way differently from everybody else. How did Blacks address these racial issues and what were the outcomes.
This specific Movement which will be discussed is the Niagara Movement of 1905 which was organized by W.E.B. Dubois and William Monroe Trotter after they were denied access to a few hotels in Buffalo, New York, because they were Black. During this time period of the early twentieth century
blacks were denied entrance to any restaurants where white people went to eat, they had separate drinking fountains and they were not permitted to sit in t5he front of buses and in some cases were arrested for owning vehicles such h as Cadillac’s on the basis that that they were stolen.
This particular movement was originally a meeting of a group of about twenty nine or so businessmen, teachers and clergy who met at Niagara Falls of which the movement was named after. The group was largely opposed to Booker T Washington’s Philosophy of Accomadationism which basically stated that Washington was risking the future of Black people by agreeing with the whites and not pushing for higher education for blacks.
There were specific circumstances that led up to the Niagara movement. circumstances like the fact that blacks at the time wanted to have the option of higher education and how they wanted to be Socially and racially equal to the white people by being able to drink from the same drinking fountains, eat at the same restaurants as
white people, even have the right to uses the same washrooms and being able to attend the same churches, schools, shows such as plays as white people. They really were not asking for too much its not like they were trying to take over the government and enslave the white people. All the Blacks wanted were the same basic rights that the white people had. The Niagara Movement had a huge effect on the Civil Rights movement. The Niagara movement laid down the so called “stepping stones” which led the Civil Rights movement to find is long needed voice. The moment lasted until the historic year of 1911 when most of its members became the “backbone” of a newly formed group which be3came known as the NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One of the main goals of the NAACP was to promote the destruction of racial prejudice toward blacks. The NAACP used such ways as inspirational speeches, meetings, special addresses and commemorative ceremonies.. to motivate its members to go out and fight for their rights. The NCAACP also used in later non violent protest against the white people hoping for a positive outcome. More often than not the nonviolent protests got negative outcomes such as getting beaten by white police officers or getting sprayed with high pressure water hoses arrested. A lot of blacks managed to get away before the police could do any damage. The Niagara Movement had a huge effect on the civil rights movement

As a member of SCC or Southern Christian Leadership Conference Fred Walker would have probably acted positively to some aspects and negatively to some aspects.
A factor of his views is based on the fact that he was only twenty two years old which as older people say isn’t old enough to have experienced anything really serious in the world. He would have experienced for most of his life persecuted for being black which the average white person viewed as the inferior race. Frank Walker would have agreed with the fact that The Niagara Movements goal to achieve Black people the rights to a higher education above just barely learn how to read and how to write. Frank Walker would have disagreed with some of the ways that members of the NAACP protested. Walker would have disagreed with the violent protesting such as destroying property by for example breaking the windows on office buildings or throwing Molotov cocktails. He would also agree with the group formed known as te NAACP and how the group would gather for inspiration such as inspirational speeches, meetings, special adder esses and commemorative ceremonies. Frank Walker wore more so agree with what the Niagara Movement stood for ad also all the it fought for and achieved and he would probably have been inspired so much that he might have gone out to fight for everything that he believed in such as equal rights for blacks, equal educationally rights like the rights for blacks to go to
the same schools and be taught the same curriculum in the same classrooms as the white people along with the right to being able to same enroll and attend at the same higher learning institutions as white people. In the long run Fred Walker would lean more towards agreeing with what the Niagara Movement stood for, fought for and accomplished, there really in the end would not be very much at all for Fred Walker to disagree with.