The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Centiry
Subtitle: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781469654263
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: In Cincinnati’s “riot of 1829,” white anger crescendoed throughout three days as white thugs vented their outrage about rising numbers of Black residents, holding “sway in the city” as “the police were unable or unwilling to restore order.”
Description: "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"--