Black convention (IMAGE)

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Black convention

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Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century." The sketch, "1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC," is by Theo R. Davis, published in Harper's Weekly, Feb. 6, 1869.

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Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection.

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