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YEAR IN REVIEW 2007
HISTORY
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Lawrence Watson performs a song as members of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who braved angry mobs in the fall of 1957 to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., clap along. The performance was part of the “50th Anniversary Celebration: Integrating Little Rock Central High School,” held at Faneuil Hall on Oct. 24. (AP photo/Lisa Poole)
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| The Amistad departs New Haven, Conn., on June 21. The freedom schooner, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a slave revolt and inspired a 1997 film, left its East Coast home port of New Haven and embarked upon a 16-month, 14,000-mile voyage to Nova Scotia, Britain and Africa. (AP photo/Jessica Hill) |
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As part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Niagara Movement’s meeting in Boston, the NAACP’s Boston branch held a series of events, starting with an exhibit on the movement’s founder, W.E.B. Du Bois (top left), shown in his office at Atlanta University in 1909. (Photo courtesy of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library and the NAACP)
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Participants in the 1907 annual meeting of the Niagara Movement in Boston at Faneuil Hall posed for this portrait. Attracting more than 800 people, the Boston meeting was the largest gathering of the Niagara Movement and the first to allow women to vote as delegates. (Photo courtesy of University of Massachusetts at Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library)
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| Group photographs of the men and women of the Niagara Movement. More than half of the delegates at the Movement’s 1907 Boston meeting were women. (Photos courtesy of University of Massachusetts at Amherst) |
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