Colored Conventions Project
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The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more. Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence? ColoredConventions.org
OTD: July 15, 1853: The Colored Convention Project @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...
OTD: July 15, 1853: The Colored Convention Project
On July 15, 1853, the Frederick Douglass Paper in Rochester, New York, published the address of the Colored National Convention to the People of the United States.
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Confrontational and Intersectional Rhetoric: Black Lives Matter and the Shutdown of the Hernando De Soto (I-40) Bridge @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...
Confrontational and Intersectional Rhetoric: Black Lives Matter and the Shutdown of the Hernando De Soto (I-40) Bridge
On July 10, 2016, more than 1,000 people took to the Hernando DeSoto (I-40) bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee in an act of mass civil disobedience to disrupt and shut down traffic.
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OTD: July 8, 1853: The Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...
OTD: July 8, 1853: The Colored Conventions Project
National Convention Held in Rochester, New York, July 6-8, 1853
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OTD: July 7, 1853: The Colored Convention Project. @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...
OTD: July 7, 1853: The Colored Convention Project
National Convention Held in Rochester, New York, July 6-8, 1853
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Colored Conventions Project@ccp-org.bsky.social · 4w agoThanks for hanging with us this weekend for 180 posts on the Declaration of Independence! The Colored Conventions deeply believed in the power of saying these words aloud. We need to hear & heed them. Watch this space for grand NEW things coming this *week*!
Thanks for hanging with us this weekend for 180 posts on the Declaration of Independence! The Colored Conventions deeply believed in the power of saying these words aloud. We need to hear & heed them. Watch this space for grand NEW things coming this *week*!
Colored Conventions Project@ccp-org.bsky.social · last mo.What to the Colored Conventions was the Declaration of Independence? Normally we hear Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July. This year, we are trying something new. From now until Monday night, we are posting quotes every half hour from the Colored Conventions movement. coloredconventions.org
On July 7, 1853, during the second day of the National Colored Convention in Rochester, New York, the committee on the Importance of Colored Persons Engaging in Commercial Pursuits. @ccp-org.bsky.social ther3project.substack.com/p/otd-july-7...
OTD: July 7, 1853: The Colored Convention Project
National Convention Held in Rochester, New York, July 6-8, 1853
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“The struggle between the old and the new … is no longer a simple conflict between the two sets of industrial principles … but along race lines as well. The self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence invading the old slave states, have divided the house against itself.” +
“If it is a Bill for social equality, so is the Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men have equal rights; so in the Sermon on the Mount, so is the Golden Rules, that commands us to do others as we would that others should do to us”—Frederick Douglass” +
“What benefit do we derive when men are placed in power who are in direct opposition to their execution? But to whom are we indebted for the rights we enjoy?”—Frederick Douglass” — 1872 National Convention of Colored People, New Orleans, LA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/544
“We have our thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, but that does not cover all the ground necessary to secure civil rights.”—Frederick Douglass” — 1872 National Convention of Colored People, New Orleans, LA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/544
“We have had the rights of American citizens since the year 1776. The Declaration of Independence gave us that right, for it says "all men were born free and equal."—Frederick Douglass” — 1872 National Convention of Colored People, New Orleans, LA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/544
“To this end, I invoke the spirit of our civilization; to this end, I invoke the sentiments of humanity; to this end, I invoke the spirit which inspired the Declaration of Independence; to this end, I invoke those divine sentiments” +
“For the staunch and hearty recognition of the principle laid down in the Declaration of Independence—that "all men are created equal"—and that the thanks of the colored people are due to the press of the country generally, so far as they endorse the same principles.” +
“In that great declaration of human rights proclaimed when our Republic was born…it was avowed that all governments derived their just powers from the consent of the governed.” +
“We presented ourselves to the world in general, and to Great Britain in particular, as one people—not as States, nor as colonies, but as one united people” — National Convention of the Colored Men of America, January 13, 14, 15, and 16, Washington, DC omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/452
“Now the question is, when did this nation begin to be? I assert, and am safe in asserting, that the first breath of life it ever drew was the Declaration of Independence” +
“We should determine and insist upon it that a "republican form of government" is one deriving its powers from the consent of the governed—one in which taxation is the correlative of the right to be represented” +
“These grievances belie the Declaration of Independence by which the American people profess to be governed.” — National Convention of the Colored Men of America, January 13, 14, 15, and 16, Washington, DC omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/452
“Resolved, that we, the colored people … do recommend that said day be observed throughout this land as a proper time to celebrate the practical carrying out of the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence.” +
“The Great Proclamation whereby that deed of righteousness was accomplished fitly echoed and supplemented the Declaration of Independence. It became, at once, a new Magna Charter to the enthralled of the land.” +
“Being men, we claim to be of that number comprehended in the Declaration of Independence, and who are entitled not only to life, but to equal rights in the pursuit and securing of happiness and in the choice of those who are to rule over us.” +
“The wise men who established this republic did not hold any such doctrine; and if they did entertain such sentiments at all, they were wise enough, and careful enough, in the performance of the grand and noble work that fell to their lot, to rise above their prejudices” +
“[The founders gave the] Declaration of Independence, and a Constitution for the United States, without a trace of such a weakness, without the stain of such an iniquity, that know no white man, no black man; but embrace in their God-like fold "ALL MEN," and are for the "PEOPLE.” +
“Had assembled to… organize to labor, unitedly and successfully, to improve their condition, and secure for them those rights which the Declaration of Independence declares to be unalienable.” +
“Men who but a few months before were slaves, having to use a phrase of politicians, 'no rights which white men were bound to respect,' had assembled to discuss and make known the condition of their people” +
“Inhabitants of this country were oppressed by the Government of Great Britain, and ...they declared war against the mother country, and, presenting to the world the Declaration of Independence, fought to establish the truths therein contained.” +
