The “Niagara Movement” was a civil rights group that existed in the 1900s in which William Edward Burghardt Dubois or W.E.B Dubois was a co-founder of. As a civil rights leader and co-founder, he decided to give the “Niagara Movement” speech during the group’s second annual meeting. During this meeting, he addresses racial discrimination African Americans have to face and demands full civil rights by appealing to the audience sense of anger while using parallel structure, antithesis and metaphors. Dubois starts off by briefly explaining what the Niagara Movement is and what the members of the group do. He explicitly states that “We want” full manhood rights, or civil rights for African Americans. He is serious and passionate about
