The Department of African American Studies will sponsor a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Niagara Movement with an event to be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Most ...

FORT ERIE, ON - As you look across the river near the peace bridge, you may notice what looks like the remains of an old boardwalk or dock, but what you may not realize is that it's actually a ...

A new documentary directed and produced by Lawrence Hott examines a significant yet largely overlooked turning point in the evolution of the American civil rights movement. The Niagara Movement, to be ...

The early battle between Black civil rights leaders over the path to secure equality. The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores Black intellectual society at the turn of the ...

The Niagara Movement — a civil rights organization that first convened near Buffalo and the Niagara Falls in upstate New York — turns 100 years old this year. The pioneering civil rights organization ...

The Niagara Movement, a short-lived but important activist organization founded by African-American intellectuals at Niagara Falls in 1905, had its first public meeting at Harpers Ferry the following ...

Nov. 27—Western New York has had many important roles in African-American history. Often overlooked is the early establishment of civil rights organizations. That history comes into focus in a new ...

What Price Freedom? The Centennial Celebration of the Niagara Movement in Buffalo, New York concludes Thursday, April 27 with Patricia Sullivan presenting the lecture “From the Niagara Movement to the ...

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Niagara Movement, Buffalo State College and the New York Council for the Humanities are sponsoring a Distinguished Lecture Series, "What Price Freedom? The ...

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Nov. 27—Western New York had many important roles in African-American history, often overlooked is the early establishment of civil rights organizations. That history comes into focus in a new ...