Anticipating doubts of authorship because of her race and gender, Priscilla Jane Thompson—the daughter of two runaway slaves—self-publishes her first book of poetry, Ethiope Lays, which includes “To a Little Colored Boy.”
In response to Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist ideas, W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter found the Niagara Movement, the precursor to the NAACP. It advocates for civil rights, education, equality, and integration.