Colored Conventions Project

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The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more. Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence? ColoredConventions.org

"Convention Minutes"

A card that says "Thanks" and has a photoshopped graphic of a dozen black and white portraits of people who attended the Colored Conventions, all combined together.

Three pamphlets from the Colored Conventions.

Concurrence by Justice Jackson with yellow highlights on "delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more
generally."

And a footnote that says:

"See Colored Conventions Project, Conventions Records (Feb. 12,
2025), https://www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/ (archived at https://perma.cc/3ZD2-3WHS) (collecting “minutes, proceedings, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, transcripts, and images”);

Black text on cream background with an image of a church's interior in the background. Sanctuaries of Struggle: The Colored Conventions and the Black Churhc as Social Movement, 1830-1890

Part 1 of the Colored Conventions Mural in Philadelphia. This panel shows a variety of images, including photographs of famous leaders at the Conventions alongside views of the convention assemblies.