This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the Nineteenth century\'s longest campaign for Black civil rights.
Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal,.
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.
This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the Nineteenth century\'s longest campaign for Black civil rights