Niagara Movement holds its third annual meeting in Boston.

(June) Over 800 people attend the convention, which is the largest to date and the first to include women. The session splits the organization, however. The faction that does not want to include whites, led by William Monroe Trotter, goes on to form the National Equal Rights League. The faction that wants to include whites, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, goes on to form the NAACP in 1909.* According to Byron Rushing, “[The split] represented the end of that period of Boston being involved in national activism in the civil rights movement.”