New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism
Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, “The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century.” The sketch, “1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC,” is by Theo R. Davis, published in Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 6, 1869. Image: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection.
New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism
Susan Burlingame
April 26, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. It has been more than 50 years since a full-length book was written about the Colored Conventions Movement the 19th century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights. In 1969, Howard Holman Bell, a scholar of African American history, published “The Negro Convention Movement: 1830-1861,” his dissertation. Bell’s book has stood as the only full-length volume on Black conventions that were organized across North America and attended by tens of thousan
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IMAGE: Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. The sketch, 1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC, is. view more
Credit: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection.
It has been more than 50 years since a full-length book was written about the Colored Conventions Movement the 19th century s longest campaign for Black civil rights. In 1969, Howard Holman Bell, a scholar of African American history, published The Negro Convention Movement: 1830-1861, his dissertation. Bell s book has stood as the only full-length volume on Black conventions that were organized across North America and attended by tens of thousands of Black delegates and likely hundreds of thousands of participants from all walks of life.