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An examination of the heated debate and conflict between W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the race and secure equality for their community, which led to the Niagara Movement, a short-lived movement that laid the cornerstone of the civil rights movement.
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00:00So what's at stake is what kind of country is the United States going to be?
00:04Is it going to be a democracy?
00:05Or is it going to be a country in which the newly emancipated black people
00:10are still going to be second-class citizens and slaves?
00:15You cannot talk about the struggle for civil rights in American history
00:19without acknowledging the Niagara Movement.
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