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THE FIGHT FOR BLACK MOBILITY: TRAVELING TO MID-CENTURY CONVENTIONS<\/h3>\n

From the Stage: William Cooper Nell<\/h1>\n

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The colored patriots of the American Revolution. [title page]” New York Public Library Digital Collections<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

January 1855\u2014<\/strong>Nell, along with William Garrison, William Wells Brown, Henry Wright and Sallie Holly, attended an Anti-Slavery meeting at the Belknap Street Church in Boston, MA, and speaks about petitions \u201cpresent to the Legislature, asking for equal school rights for colored children.\u201d Liberator<\/em> 26 January 25(4):15,1<\/p>\n

April 28, 1855\u2014<\/strong>Nell\u2019s petitions were successful and the Massachusetts legislature abolishes separate Negro schools. Robert P. Smith. \u201cWilliam Cooper Nell: Crusading Black Abolitionist.\u201d The Journal of Negro History<\/em> 55.3 (1970): 182\u2013199<\/p>\n

July 27, 1855<\/strong>\u2014Nell attended Colored National Council meeting along with Amos Beman, Frederick Douglass, J. Mccune Smith, and others, but \u201cwas predisposed against any participation, because of valid objections, constitutional and otherwise.\u201d Liberator<\/em>, July 1855 25(30):120<\/p>\n

October 1855\u2014<\/strong>Nell published a book, The<\/em> Colored Patriots of the America Revolution; With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added A Brief Survey of the Condition and Prospects of Colored Americans with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/em>. Published by R.F. Wallcut. 396 pages. Price $1. Liberator<\/em>, 26 October 1855, 25(43):171, 1<\/p>\n

December 17, 1855\u2014<\/strong>Nell is honored in a meeting of the colored citizens of Boston: \u201cA Tribute to William C. Nell, from the coloured citizens of Boston, for his untiting efforts in Equal School rights\u201d \u2013 Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston. Proceedings of the Presentation Meeting held in Boston, Dec. 17, 1855; Including Addresses by John T. Hilton, Wm C. Nell, Charles Slack, Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Charles Lenox Remond.<\/em> Published by F.R. Wallcut, 21 Cornhill, 1856, p. 4-11<\/p>\n

The following year, Nell traveled throughout the Midwest<\/strong> attending anti-slavery meetings and submitting reports to the Liberator.<\/em> Robert P. Smith. \u201cWilliam Cooper Nell: Crusading Black Abolitionist.\u201d The Journal of Negro History<\/em> 55.3 (1970): 182\u2013199<\/p>\n

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