The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing In The Nineteenth Century (The John Hope Franklin Series In African American History And Culture) - 9781469654263

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism--

• | Author: P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, Sarah Lynn Patterson
• | Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• | Publication Date: March 22, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 363 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469654261
• | ISBN-13: 9781469654263