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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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