The Niagara Movement: the Early Battle for Civil Rights

A Film by Lawrence Hott

Edited by

Rikk Desgres

Written by

Ken Chowder

Narrated by

Debra Wilson

Cinematography by

Gregory Brutus

Animation and Title Design

Amit Sethi

Music by

Robert Toteras

Sound by

Eugene Kim

Mix, Color Correction and Sound Design

Pinehurst Pictures and Sound

Associate Producer

Sharon Williams

Assistant Editor

Eleanor Levine

Archival Research

Rich Remsberg

Voices

Ty Jones - W.E.B. Du Bois

Ezra Knight – William Monroe Trotter

David Fennoy – Booker T. Washington

Project Advisors

Aldon Morris

David Levering Lewis

Angela Jones

Shawn Alexander

Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Archives provided by

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library African American Registry

Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alamy

American Antiquarian Society

Ann Chinn

Associated Press

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Brown University

Buffalo Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York

The Buffalo History Museum

Chadbourne Antiques and Collectibles

Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women's Clubs

The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum, Jim Wallace/Courtesy Lonnie Bunch

Tennessee State Library & Archives

Critical Past

Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Worcester Polytechnic Institute, George C. Gordon Library

Digital Library of Georgia

EBay

Ed Westcott / Department of Energy Oak Ridge

The Evening News, Detroit

FootageArchive

Fort Erie Public Library, Fort Erie Local History

Fred L. Howe 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition Photographs, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center

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Anthony Barboza, Getty Images

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Joseph Schwartz, CORBIS, Corbis via Getty Images

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Harvard University Archives

History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives

Historic Films

The Historic New Orleans Collection

Huntley Archives

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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia or Ferris State University

Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center

Library of Congress

Marion Johnson Photographs, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center

Minnesota Historical Society

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Museum of the City of New York

National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Newspapers.com

The New York Public Library

Peggy Preacely

Photographs from the Craft-Trotter family papers, BANC PIC 1998.062--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library

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Sherman Grinberg Library

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Trotter Multicultural Center, University of Michigan

University of New Orleans, Louisiana Digital Library

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W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries

Washington, DC, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Visual Materials from the NAACP Records

Wellesley College Library

West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries

The White House Historical Association

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Without Sanctuary Collection

WNED-TV, PBS

Works Progress Administration Film Library

FOR WNED PBS

Executive in Charge of Production

David C. Rotterman

Production Executive

Lynne Bader

Production Coordinator

Sufana Wajed

Promotion

Heather Hare

Elyse Breeze

Christopher Hyzy

Tia Piotrowski

Online Editor

Pillar to Post

Web Design

Christy May

Eileen Casey

Foundation Development

Lori Bannister

Lori Overdorf

Daniel Roetzer

Learning and Engagement

Beth Fronckowiak

Samantha Kittinger

Julia Bibko

Original Production Funding Provided by

The John R. Oishei Foundation

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Inc.

Visit Buffalo Niagara

Executive Producers

John Grant

Donald K. Boswell

“Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights,” is a Production of WNED PBS and FlorentineFilms/Hott Productions, Inc. who are solely responsible for its content.

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