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The convention delegates wrote a letter congratulating General Ulysses S. Grant for being elected President of the United States, to which Grant responded, "I thank the Convention, of which you are the representative, for the confidence they have expressed, and I hope sincerely that the colored people of the Nation may receive every protection ...
The Colored Conventions Movement began in the 1830s and sporadically met into 1893. The main goal of the convention movement was to gain freedom and call attention to the constitutional rights of slaves and African American freemen. [2] The conventions consisted of free African Americans from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Canada. [3]
The Colored Convention of 1843 was the first successful national convention since that held in 1835, [13] and it reestablished the pattern of regular conventions, increasing the opportunities for political and social discussions. It helped unite colored people in support of anti-slavery and actions towards freedom. A newspaper clipping of The ...
The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, one of the two primary labor conventions of the ILO, came into force on 4 July. 27 August 1950 (United States) President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike.
The Colored Conventions team comprises a diverse group of dedicated and energetic scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and librarians at the University of Delaware. Project members represent a range of academic disciplines, including English, African American History, Art and Education.
The New York State Convention of Colored Citizens was a series of colored convention events active from 1840 until 1891 in various cities in New York state. [1] The convention was one of several social movement conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.
In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today's climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city but ...
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