National Association of Colored People holds its third national convention in Boston.

(March) Some 1,000 people attend the NAACP’s second national convention at the Park Street Church. Despite his differences with the organization, William Monroe Trotter welcomes delegates and, in The Guardian, writes: “This is the home of abolition, of equal rights. It leads in these principles the rest of the country. Reaction is setting in. Any compromise in Boston will doubly damage the cause. . . Let’s all attend.” Soon after, Trotter announces plans for a convention of the National Independent Political League (the successor to the Negro-American Political league) to be held in Boston in August, but it proves to be poorly attended.