Jim Casey
@jimccasey1.bsky.social
Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Writing a history of editing and editors. Making our way at the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, Early Black Press Project, and the Coalition for Black Digital Research.
OTD: July 25, 1883: The Colored Convention Project @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...
OTD: July 25, 1883: The Colored Convention Project
On July 25, 1883, the Abbeville Press and Banner, in Abbeville, South Carolina, published the July 18 proceedings of the South Carolina State Colored Convention.
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IYKYK, nineteenth-century style. Congrats, @shsalter.bsky.social on EDITORIAL MASCULINITY AND THE SEX WORK OF PRINT! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
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Swinging into high gear for another year of Douglass Day! Wild that it'll be our 11th year! 🎂
All pets in my overpriced apartment complex now have to be DNA tested and registered with a corporation called PooPrints?? Someone can now DNA swab dog poop left on a sidewalk and run it in the database. We live in such a shabby version of the future.
Just finished a co-PI call for our "Communities in the Loop" Schmidt HAVI project with @snblickhan.bsky.social, @profdancy.bsky.social, @bcgl.bsky.social & Tiffanie Smith. Just AMAZING. Things that wouldn't have been possible even a few years ago. Can't wait to share what we've been cooking up!
"Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000" – also just such an excellent phrase
Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · 3w agoFavorite: JPEG 2000 Least Favorite: JPEG 2000 Cuz it's wild that a 30 year-old very obscure file format plays such a central role for so many things. Also the history of cultural heritage file formats is always a brain melter
Favorite: JPEG 2000 Least Favorite: JPEG 2000 Cuz it's wild that a 30 year-old very obscure file format plays such a central role for so many things. Also the history of cultural heritage file formats is always a brain melter
Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 3w agoFavorite and least favorite file formats? I'll start. Favorite: TXT Least favorite: HEIC
Submitted my comments in opposition to the new OMB rules. You can too! There is still time today: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... If you want some talking points, AHA www.historians.org/news/aha-sub... & AAM offer good ones: www.aam-us.org/2026/06/08/a...
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
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
“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” +
“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
“Resolved, That in the name of our humanity, in the name of our nativity, in the name of our love of our country, in the name of the old Revolutionary doctrine, that taxation and Representation ought not to be separated”—John Mercer Langston” +
“The Government which should protect them, prostituting its powers to aid the villains who hunt them."—Peter H. Clark” — 1858 Ohio State Convention of Colored Men, Cincinnati, OH omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/254
Day 3! One final and full day of ideas about the Declaration of Independence from the Colored Conventions. Many of the quotes today are from Reconstruction Southern Conventions.
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
“Our right to live here is as good as the white man's, and is incorporated in the Declaration of Independence"—William Wells Brown” — 1859 New England Regional Convention of Colored Citizens, Boston, MA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/269
We're on day 2 of 3 posting quotes about the Declaration of Independence from the Colored Conventions movement. Going well!
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
“In a country professing to realize in its government, the grand principles of the Declaration of 1776, millions of our brethren are publicly sold, like beasts in their shambles, that they are robbed of their earnings”—Peter H. Clark” +
“In that declaration of fundamental principles, set forth by the fathers of '76, we fail to discover anything like a system of exclusion. No! there is not an expression, nor an implied sentiment to be found making a distinction in the rights and privileges of any class of American citizens.” +
“We plead... that the laws of our country may cease to conflict with the spirit of that sacred instrument, the Declaration of American Independence.” — 1835 National Convention of Free People of Colour, Philadelphia, PA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/277
“John Mercer Langston...began by saying that he was a believer in the Declaration of American Independence; and proceeded to show that all people in the land, white and colored, were slaves to the oligarchy which inaugurated the present rebellion” +
“Resolved, That this Convention, to promote their own complete and equal enfranchisement, confess themselves to be unable to find a more solid platform of principles, ...than is furnished in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.” +
@jimccasey1.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social Creating Democracy: The Declaration of Independence and the Rhetorical Ethics of the Colored Convention Movement ther3project.substack.com/p/creating-d...
Creating Democracy: The Declaration of Independence and the Rhetorical Ethics of the Colored Convention Movement
Keynote Address for the Philosophy and Communication Conference at Duquesne University
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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
Watch this space tomorrow! In honor of the 250th, join us to follow the dozens of discussions at Colored Conventions about what the Declaration of Independence *could* mean.
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/
