1873 National Civil Rights Convention
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The National Civil Rights Convention of 1873 was held in Washington, D.C.. W. Ogilvie photographed the convention which began December 9.{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004671620/|title=The National Equal Rights Convention, which met Dec. 9th, 1873, Washington, D.C.|first=W.|last=Ogilvie|date=May 29, 1873|website=www.loc.gov}} It was covered by the New York Times.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1873/12/14/archives/the-national-civil-rights-convention.html|title=The National Civil Rights Convention.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 14, 1873}}
History
The Colored Conventions Movement included a long series of national conventions held by free "people of color" going back decades before the American Civil War. Conventions were held in Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Rochester (New York), Syracuse, Cleveland and (after the war) Washington D.C., St. Louis, New Orleans, and Cincinnati.{{Cite web|url=https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/national-conventions|title=National Conventions · Colored Conventions Project Digital Records|website=omeka.coloredconventions.org}}
George T. Downing chaired the 1873 convention and A. M. Green was secretary. A memorial publication of the event was published.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wxhFAAAAYAAJ|title=Memorial of the National Convention of Colored Persons Praying to be Protected in Their Civil Rights: National Civil-Rights Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 1873|date=May 29, 1873|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008407164|title=Memorial of the national convention of colored persons praying to be protected in their civil rights: National Civil-Rights Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 1873.|series=43rd Congress, 1st Session, Senate ;mis. Doc. No. 21|date=May 29, 1873|publisher=[s.n.]|via=Hathi Trust}}
Conventioneers were welcomed by Charles Sumner, supported by members of the Republican party and President Ulysses Grant.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdJ7DwAAQBAJ&q=1873+National+Civil+Rights+Convention&pg=PA57|title=Welcoming Ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875|first1=Alan|last1=Friedlander|first2=Richard Allan|last2=Gerber|date=November 22, 2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004384071|via=Google Books}}
William Nesbit called the meeting to order. Attendees included John Mercer Langston, P. B. S. Pinchback, Stuart Ellison, Robert Harlan, Daniel Straker, John Hyman, Frederick Douglass, and all seven African American congressmen. President Grant received attendees at the White House's Blue Room.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/national-conventions Colored Conventions Project]
National Civil Rights Convention
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Category:African-American events
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