Dr. Garnet Waller, founder of the Niagara Movement, organized a group of women for a special auxiliary committee to serve as hostesses for a meeting. On January 6, 1906, the committee became known as The DuBois Circle.
The DuBois Circle continues in its one hundred twelfth year to have active concern for theory and practice in politics, for poverty in a land of plenty, for immigration and population problems, for education as the stepping stone to employment and progress, for careers in occupations hitherto closed to men and women of color, and for the acceleration of the integration of the masses of Blacks into the mainstream of American society.
(Article written by Mrs. Patelle Harris, DuBois Circle Historian with excerpts from a manuscript by Dr. Jean Turpin in 1971)
