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The convention delegates wrote a letter congratulating General Ulysses S. Grant for being elected President of the United States, to which Grant responded, "I thank the Convention, of which you are the representative, for the confidence they have expressed, and I hope sincerely that the colored people of the Nation may receive every protection ...
As part of Wikipedia GLAM, the Colored Conventions Project hopes to share the images, biographies, and other data it has gathered on Wikipedia. This information is a valuable contribution to the historical knowledge of American history, and especially to the topics of the history of Women and People of Color, topics that are underrepresented on ...
The Colored Conventions Movement included a long series of national conventions held by free "people of color" going back decades before the American Civil War.Conventions were held in Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Rochester (New York), Syracuse, Cleveland and (after the war) Washington D.C., St. Louis, New Orleans, and Cincinnati.
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 Colored Convention of 1843 was the first successful national convention since that held in 1835, [13] and it reestablished the pattern of regular conventions, increasing the opportunities for political and social discussions. It helped unite colored people in support of anti-slavery and actions towards freedom. A newspaper clipping of The ...
The second convention took place on April 4, 1866, in the Office of the Loyal Georgian, a newspaper produced by the Georgia Equal Rights Association from 1866 to 1867. [4] At this meeting, President J.E. Bryant urged his members to elect a black man to be sent to the U.S. Congress as a representative of blacks in the United States.
The 1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends, held in Troy, New York, established a newspaper that would report on the future conventions. [1] Noteworthy black abolitionists in attendance included Henry Highland Garnet , who was hosting the convention in his church, and Frederick Douglass , who gave a speech asking blacks to ...
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.