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07031.ED – Pictured here are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) delegates’ pilgrimage to Storer College in 1932. A marker was rejected because officials thought it might enflame the public sentiment in those times. In 1906 the second meeting of the Niagara Movement which was held at Storer College in Harpers Ferry and led by W. E. B. DuBois served as the forerunner of the NAACP. Some of the heads of the Jefferson County NAACP over the years include: Eugene E. Bishop Baltimore, Richard Clark, Ernest M. Dandridge, Sr., George C. Rutherford, Russell Stephenson, Lester Taylor and James A. Tolbert, Sr.