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  2. Colored Conventions Movement - Wikipedia

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    Delegates at the National Convention of Colored Men in Syracuse, NY founded the National Equal Rights Leagues and attempted to form state-level Equal Rights League chapters across the United States. In response to a denial of African American admittance to the National Labor Union, community leaders formed the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU ...

  3. 1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens - Wikipedia

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    This speech made Henry Garnet a controversial and well-known abolitionist. His speech influenced subsequent colored conventions and anti-slavery literature to increase calls for action, especially to slaves. [14] [5] [15] The speech was written about in several black newspapers, including The Liberator and The North Star. The Liberator wrote ...

  4. Hezekiah Grice - Wikipedia

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    Grice was born in rural Calvert County, Maryland, in the early 1800s. [2] The historian Lucien Holness gives Grice's year of birth as 1801. [3] A biographical sketch of Grice written in 1867 and published in Elevator, the newspaper of the Afro-American League of California and the American Citizens' Equal Rights Association of the State of California, listed his date of birth as being "in the ...

  5. 1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends

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    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 ...

  6. Richard Allen (bishop) - Wikipedia

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    As a result, the Negro Convention addressed organizing aid to such settlements in Canada, among other issues. The 1830 meeting was the beginning of an organizational effort known as the Negro Convention Movement, part of 19th-century institution building in the Black community. [19] Conventions were held regularly nationally.

  7. Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League Convention - Wikipedia

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    The 1830 convention at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia was led by Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the National Negro Convention. [4] [5] It was held on September 15, 1830, and lasted ten-days. [6]

  8. Howard H. Bell - Wikipedia

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    "The National Negro Convention", 1848 [7] Some Reform Interests of the Negro During the 1850s as Reflected in State Conventions, Phlyon v. 21/ 2 1960 [8] [9] "The American Moral Reform Society, 1836-1841", The Journal of Negro Education; Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864, 1969

  9. Martin Delany - Wikipedia

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    Encountering Delany at a black church in South Carolina several weeks after the end of the Civil War, journalist Whitelaw Reid described him as "a coal-black negro, in the full uniform of a Major of the army, with an enormous regulation hat" and "no lack of flowing plume, or gilt cord and knots," who, while giving an ill-received speech, was ...