Niagara Movement,
Boston 1907
On this date in 1909, the NAACP held its first conference, in New York City. Over 300 African Americans and whites-Americans attended.
Ida B. Wells Barrnett was a keynote speaker at the conference, condemning the lynching of Blacks in the United States.
Reference:
Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1
