Through newspaper articles in the New York Age and later in the Chicago Conservator and in lectures in the United States and Great Britain, Ida B. Wells demanded that the United States confront lynching. When William Monroe Trotter and W. E. B. Du Bois, two other dissenters from Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist point of view of race relations, joined efforts to form a new organization for racial protest in 1905, Ida Wells quickly joined it. Known as the Niagara Movement, the association condemned segregation, the disenfranchisement of Black voters, lynching, and any suggestion that the demand for immediate civil rights be deferred. This new body gained strength as a result of a race riot in Springfield, Illinois, in the summer of 1908. The riot started when a white woman accused a Black man of attempting to rape her. When police protected the alleged rapist, an enraged mob attacked the Black community. During two nights of violence, the mob burned and looted homes and businesses and murdered two Black men. Several days after the riot, the white woman recanted her charge. That a major race riot could occur in a northern city that also happened to be the hometown of Abraham Lincoln showed that racially motivated mob violence was not a problem unique to the South.