The gentlemen in the photo are the original few members of the Niagara Movement. The location of the picture is as the name suggests Niagara Falls in Toronto, Canada in 1905. Significant members in the photo are Alonzo Herndon (2nd in the top row), W.E.B. Du bois (4th in middle row), and Norris Herndon, Alonzo Herndon’s son (2nd in middle row). This group was originally made up of 32 men from the United States as an early rendition of the Civil Rights Movement. They had to meet on the Canadian side of the border because there was no hotel that would allow them to stay on the American side of the border. The group created what they called the Declaration of Principles that detailed specific principles and objectives they had as a group as well as various duties they thought everyone should follow out. The duties they believed everyone should be demanded to do include voting, respecting others and themselves, work, obey the laws, be clean and orderly, and send children to school. By the end of their first year, the group had expanded from 32 members to 170, but the group would dissolve in 1910. The group would act historically as the predecessor to the NAACP.