FIRST -- Niagara Movement Open and Public Meeting on American Soil - Harpers Ferry, WV
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N 39° 19.474 W 077° 44.425
18S E 263772 N 4356376
One of a few state markers in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Waymark Code: WM14HM7
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2021
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The plaque says, "Here, on August 15-19, 1906, on the Storer College campus, the Niagara Movement held their first open and public meeting on American soil. Organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and others a year earlier in Erie Beach, Ontario, Canada, the Niagara Movement became the cornerstone of modern civil rights movement and was the forerunner of the NAACP."
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