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The Niagara Movement of 1905: A Look Back to a Century Ago

2008· article· en· W140833357 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kyle D. Wolf

Bibliographic record

VenueAfro-Americans in New York life and history · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryMovement (music)Civil rightsObituaryLawArtPolitical scienceArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.- W. E. B. Du Bois Over a century ago in February 1905, thirty-two Americans met secretly in the Buffalo home of Mary B. Talbert to discuss the resolutions that would become the Movement. This group invited fifty-nine selected African American businessmen to a meeting that summer in western New York. On July 11 thru 14, 1905 on the Canadian side of Falls, twenty-nine met and formed a group called the (Founders of the Movement at Falls.). name Niagara allegedly came from the location of the meeting, along with the 'mighty current' of protest they wished to unleash. But before looking at the Movement, we need to take a closer look at some of the founding members. W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most well-known and respected founding member of the Movement. Du Bois was born in Barrington, Massachusetts in 1868. He completed high school and then went to Fisk University, where, in 1888, he received a B.A. degree. Du Bois went on to go to Harvard where he obtained his M.A. and his Ph. D. (Dubois Obituary). Du Bois was the first American to earn a Ph. D. at Harvard (Meier, and Franklin, 65). Du Bois used his training in social sciences and published the first in-depth case study of a black community in the United States, in Philadelphia Negro, in 1899. When dealing with civil rights for Americans, Du Bois believed in a college-educated Tenth. This Talented Tenth were going to be the educated Americans who would lead the rest of the Americans to equality by being committed to the welfare of the black masses. This Talented Tenth would be the leadership that would elevate the blacks economically and culturally. This will play in later to the conflict between Du Bois and the largest black figure of this time, Booker T. Washington. [Du Bois was also a noted propagandist]. Since Du Bois was the leading intellectual American at this time, it seems appropriate that this would be one of his roles. Du Bois even wrote in his autobiographical book, Dusk of Dawn, that it was his role as a master of propaganda (Meier and Franklin, 63-66). Du Bois also had a personal platform, which he circulated, that would heavily influence the Movement's platform that will be discussed later on. Du Bois' personal platform was as follows: Full political rights on the same terms as other Americans; higher education of selected Negro youth; industrial education for the masses; common school training for every Negro child; a stoppage to the campaign of self-depreciation; a careful study of the real conditions of the Negro; a national Negro periodical; the raising of a defense fund; a judicious fight in the courts for civil rights. (Meier and Franklin, 67) It is apparent in this platform that Du Bois was an intellectual, who valued an education and the advancement of Americans, unlike Booker T. Washington who was considered to be a compromiser. The Movement, whose tiny membership was drawn chiefly from the ranks of northern college-educated professional men, held annual meetings for the next five years. chief function of these gatherings was to issue declarations of protest to white America (Meier and Franklin, 68). We can see from this statement that Du Bois' feelings about educated Americans leading the way to true freedom was incorporated into the Movement. It is undeniable that Du Bois was the most influential member of the Movement. Three other important members of the Movement were; Freeman Murray, Monroe Trotter, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Murray moved from his Ohio home to Washington D.C. to take a federal job in the Surgeon General's office after he passed the first civil service exam that was ever administered by the United States. …

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.490
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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