The end of American slavery began in Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass said. The Niagara Movement, predecessor of the NAACP, held its first American meeting there in 1906 (its first meeting was in Canada) and would have met there again in 1907, but the college prohibited it. Attendees walked to John Brown's Fort, which shortly thereafter was moved to the campus. Black tourists came to Harpers Ferry; there was a hotel catering to them, the Hilltop House, built and managed by a Black Storer graduate, Thomas Lovett.