Editing Niagara Movement (section)

==End of the Movement==
William Monroe Trotter's departure after the 1907 meeting had a serious negative impact on the organization, as did disagreements about which party to support in the 1908 election. Du Bois, with some reluctance, endorsed [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate [[William Jennings Bryan]], but many African-Americans could not bring themselves to break from the Republicans, and [[William Howard Taft]] won the election, receiving significant African-American support.<ref>Rudwick, pp. 194–195.</ref> The 1908 annual meeting, held in [[Oberlin, Ohio]], was a much smaller affair, and exposed disunity and apathy within the group at both local and national levels.<ref>Rudwick, pp. 195–198.</ref> Du Bois invited [[Mary White Ovington]], a [[Settlement movement|settlement worker]] and [[socialism|socialist]] he had met in 1904, to address the organization. She was the only white woman to be so honored.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wolters|first=Raymond|year=2003|title=Du Bois and His Rivals|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-1519-2|location=Columbia, MO | page = 91}}</ref> By 1908, Washington and his supporters successfully made serious inroads with the press (both white and black), and the Oberlin meeting received almost no coverage.<ref>Rudwick, p. 196.</ref> Believing the Movement to be "practically dead", Washington also prepared an obituary of the organization for the ''[[New York Age]]'' to publish.<ref name=Rudwick198/>

In 1909, chapter activities continued to dwindle, membership dropped, and the 1910 annual meeting (held at [[Sea Isle City, New Jersey]]) was a small affair that again received no significant press.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Nicagara [sic] Movement
|newspaper=Charleston Advocate, ([[Charleston, West Virginia]])
|date=August 11, 1910
|page=1
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}}</ref> It was the organization's last meeting.<ref>Rudwick, p. 197.</ref>