09003.EV

09003.EV – Pictured here are the delegates to the Second Niagara Conference. The Leader was Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and the Field Secretary was J. R. Clifford. This photograph was taken on August 17, 1906, when the Niagara Conference was held on Storer College campus and held its first open and public meeting in the U. S. It had met in 1905 in Ontario, Canada. It would become the foundation of the modern civil rights movement and the forerunner to the NAACP.