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Delegates at the National Convention of Colored Men in Syracuse, NY founded the National Equal Rights Leagues and attempted to form state-level Equal Rights League chapters across the United States. In response to a denial of African American admittance to the National Labor Union, community leaders formed the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU ...
It became the first National Negro Convention, held on September 15 [9] to 24 [10] of 1830, at the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia. [11] The agenda of the convention included general discussion on the advisability of mass emigration by African Americans away from the United States, the possible locations that they could move to, and ...
A schism from the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. forms the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. [citation needed] 1916. January – Carter Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History begins publishing the Journal of Negro History, the first academic journal devoted to the study of African-American history.
The 1830 convention at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia was led by Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the National Negro Convention. [4] [5] It was held on September 15, 1830, and lasted ten-days. [6]
The Negro's Civil War: how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union (1965) online; Newman, Richard S. and Roy E. Finkenbine, "Black Founders in the New Republic" William and Mary Quarterly (2007) 64#1 pp. 83–94 online; Newman, Richard S. Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding ...
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Rev. Terrence L. Johnson relates the story of Black History Month, which began in 1926 as a national Negro History Week campaign.
In 2022 alone, police killed 1,192 people, more than any year in the past decade, according to a new report released last week by nonprofit Mapping Police Violence. Black people accounted for more ...