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He was proprietor of the Lewis House in the early days of Omaha. In 1879, he organized a brass band which was a fixture in African-American events in Omaha in the 1880s. He was active in the Nebraska State Convention of Colored Americans, a part of the Colored Conventions Movement and involved in Republican politics in Omaha.
The Colored Conventions Movement, or Black Conventions Movement, was a series of national, regional, and state conventions held irregularly during the decades preceding and following the American Civil War.
The Colored Conventions Movement began in the 1830s and sporadically met into 1893. The main goal of the convention movement was to gain freedom and call attention to the constitutional rights of slaves and African American freemen. [2] The conventions consisted of free African Americans from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Canada. [3]
The National Convention of Colored Citizens was held August 15–19, 1843 at the Park Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New York. Similar to previous colored conventions , the convention of 1843 was an assembly for African American citizens to discuss the organized efforts of the anti-slavery movement.
The Colored Conventions team comprises a diverse group of dedicated and energetic scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and librarians at the University of Delaware. Project members represent a range of academic disciplines, including English, African American History, Art and Education.
The California State Convention of Colored Citizens (CSCCC) was a series of colored convention events active from 1855 to 1902. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The convention was one of several social movement conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.
The Constitutional Convention movement hopes to unite states to convene a never-before-seen “Convention of States” under Article V of the Constitution that would allow state legislatures to ...
The 1865 South Carolina State Convention of Colored People was a statewide meeting of African American civil rights activists after emancipation and the end of the Civil War. The convention took place November 20—25, 1865, at the Zion Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Delegates discussed various reforms and adopted three documents by the ...