"[3] In 1907, civil rights activist and journalist William Monroe Trotter resigned from the Niagara Movement race organization because of disagreements with W. E. B.
[4][7] Officers listed on the group's letterhead in 1908 were:[9] The founding members of NIPL came from the National Afro-American Council, the Constitutional League, and the Niagara Movement.
[7] NIPL activities included "opposition to disfranchisement, peonage, Jim Crow cars, and support for equal education, national legislation against lynching, and the restoration of the discharged Brownsville soldiers.
[2] Speakers for the event included Edward Everett Brown, Byron Gunner, Albert E. Pillsbury, and Frank Sanborn, along with S. L. Carrothers, J. Milton Waldron, and Walters.
[12][13][14] NIPL decided to support William Howard Taft over Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican nomination for president during its 1911 national convention.
[2] In 1913, NIPL collected twenty thousand signatures on a petition that demanded the desegregation in federal offices; this was delivered to President Wilson.
[1][15] Later, Trotter discussed the confidential meeting with the media, noting that Wilson's policies went against a desegregated system that had worked well for fifty years.
[2] When The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915, NIERL mobilized the Black community to protest the film, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan.
[3] When he returned to the United States, Trotter was well-received and spoke to large audiences in New York and Washington, D.C.[3] By 1921, the league dissolved, having been outpaced by the NAACP which had more money and the support of powerful whites.