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Niagara Movement Membership Letter No. 4

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Updating members of the Niagara Movement on the legal case of Barbara Pope v. the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Legal Department of the Niagara Movement took up Pope's case after she refused to move to the Jim Crow train car upon crossing the line from the District of Columbia to Virginia.
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. History
  3. Law And Legislation
  4. Niagara Movement (Organization)
  5. Railroad Travel
  6. Segregation
  7. Segregation In Transportation

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