AfricanAmericanStudies.buffalo.edu
University at Buffalo's
Department of African American Studies
will host a press conference 
on the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the
Niagara Movement
Date: Saturday, July 9, 2005
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Place: At the site of the home of Mary Burnett Talbert at 521 Michigan Avenue. 
For further information call:
645 2082 and ask to speak to 
Dr. Lillian S. Williams
 
Images of the Press Conference
The purpose is to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Niagara Movement and to recommit to the continuing struggle for social justice.

The Movement's  “1905 Declaration of Principles” will be read at the press conference, and some stakeholders will present a 2005 “Declaration of Principles.”

National and local groups will be represented at the press conference.

Among the groups that have agreed to participate to date (listed in order of acceptance of invitation) are:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
National African American Women's Leadership Institute
African American Studies, University at Buffalo
Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier
Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo
Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice
Uncrowned Queens
Dr. Joseph Gardella,  Environmental Justice Coalition
Niagara Falls Housing Authority
Niagara County Legislator Renae Kimble
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University
Monroe Fordham Regional History Center, Buffalo State College
 

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