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Starting in 1830 and continuing until well after the Civil War, free, freed, and self-emancipated Black Americans gathered in state and national political conventions. A cornerstone of Black organizing in the nineteenth century, these Colored Conventions brought Black communities together in a seven-decades-long campaign for civil and human rights. The first Colored Convention took place in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
