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1855 Colored National Convention at Franklin Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1855 First California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento, California; 1857 Convention of Colored Citizens, New York City, New York; 1858 Convention of Colored Men, Chatham, Canada West; May 8–10, 1858, organized by John Brown.
The National Convention of Colored Men took place in Syracuse, New York on October 4th, 1864, almost two years after the Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, three years after the start of the Civil War, and just a few weeks ahead of the most significant election in the nation’s history.
A cornerstone of Black organizing in the nineteenth century, these “Colored Conventions” brought Black men and women together in a decades-long campaign for civil and human rights. Explore Records
About the Colored Conventions. National Colored Convention, Nashville, 1876, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 1876. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Over the course of seven decades, tens of thousands of Black men and women from different walks of life traveled to attend meetings publicly ...
Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored Men, held in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., October 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1864; with the Bill of wrongs and rights, and the Address to the American people. | Library of Congress. Share.
18. Feb. 2022 · At the National Equal Rights League of Colored Men Convention in 1867, delegates argued that service in the Civil War entitled them to “share of the fruits of victory—freedom, manhood, all the rights and privileges of citizenship.”
The movement began in 1830 when the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Richard Allen, hosted a Colored Convention of free Black men at Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The body of leaders contested widespread discrimination against Black communities, namely the 1829 Ohio exclusionary law and anti-Black ...
