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With a focus on news, migration and the popular lecture circuit during the 1850s, this exhibit investigates the ways men and women delegates and collaborating activists in their social networks claimed Philadelphia as site for an inter-state and international movement furthering race uplift.<\/p>\n
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Curators:<\/strong> Jessica Conrad and Samantha deVera, Graduate Students, Department of English, University of Delaware.<\/p>\n Edited by<\/strong> Sarah L. Patterson and P. Gabrielle Foreman.<\/p>\n Undergraduate Researchers:<\/strong> Nathan Nikolic, Gwen Meredith, and Caleb Trotter.<\/p>\n Graduate Student Researchers<\/strong>: Special thanks to the ENGL\/HIST 641,\u201cBlack Activism and Print Culture in the 19th Century and the Digital Age\u201d Spring 2017 seminar, taught by P. Gabrielle Foreman for their research and fact checking.<\/p>\n Cover Image<\/strong> “The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia.” 1850. Image Courtesy of Library Company of Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n Special thanks<\/b> to Gale, a Cengage Company, and Accessible Archives Inc.\u00ae for granting permission for the use of the materials from 19th Century U.S. Newspaper<\/a><\/em> and African American Newspapers: The 19th Century<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The Colored Conventions Project<\/b> works with teaching partners and their students to create digital content on the rich history of Black political organizing in the nineteenth-century. Visit our Teaching Partners page<\/a> to browse the curriculum and find information on becoming a teaching partner.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE FIGHT FOR BLACK MOBILITY: TRAVELING TO MID-CENTURY CONVENTIONS With a focus on news, migration and the popular lecture circuit during the 1850s, this exhibit investigates the ways men and women delegates and collaborating activists in their social networks claimed Philadelphia as site for an inter-state and international movement furthering race uplift. CreditsCurators: Jessica Conrad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":4638,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this:<\/p> Hi there! I'm a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like pi\u00f1a coladas. (And gettin' caught in the rain.)<\/p><\/blockquote> ...or something like this:<\/p> The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and has been providing quality doohickeys to the public ever since. Located in Gotham City, XYZ employs over 2,000 people and does all kinds of awesome things for the Gotham community.<\/p><\/blockquote>