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This exhibit takes as its focus the rituals<\/em> of the conventions\u2014the carefully crafted actions repeated by delegates and audience members again and again over years, and sometimes decades. 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Ball, Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Created for Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman’s History\/English 641 class, Spring, 2016.<\/p>\n Edited by<\/strong> P. Gabrielle Foreman and Sarah Patterson.<\/p>\n Special thanks<\/strong> 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<\/strong> works with teaching partners and their students to create digital content on the rich history of Black political organizing in the nineteenth-century. 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