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Colored Conventions Project – Bringing Nineteeth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

Colored Conventions Project – Bringing Nineteeth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life Skip to content Home Conventions About the Conventions Convention Records Submit Records CCP Corpus Bibliography Exhibits Teaching Curriculum Teaching Partners News Daily Write-on-Sites Douglass Day Colored Conventions Book News & Events Press & Notices Videos About CCP CCP Principles Team Committees Project Curriculum Vitae Speaker’s Agreement #DigBlk, Center for Black Digital Research Two Colored Convention Project Websites Donate Contact Us Search Bringing 19th-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life From 1830 until well after the Civil War, African Americans gathered across the United States and Canada to participate in political meetings held at the state and national levels. A cornerstone of Black organizing in the nineteenth century, these “Colored Conventions” brought Black men and women together in a decades-long campaign for civil and human rights. Explore Records Explore Exhibits Featured Exhibits Our interactive, digital exhibits use historical images and documents to provide further insight into the Colored Conventions and expand our understanding of early Black organizing.

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