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The Colored Conventions Movement

Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

Herausgeber: Foreman, P. Gabrielle; Patterson, Sarah Lynn; Casey, Jim
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This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the att...