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Largely due to the continued legality of slavery in southern states, the first southern Colored Convention did not take place until January of 1865. Charting Colored Conventions from just after the Civil War in 1865 to the Exoduster Movement in 1879, this exhibit uncovers the patterns and trends of postbellum southern Colored Conventions.<\/p>\n
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Curators: <\/strong>Dr. Selena Sanderfer is an Associate Professor at Western Kentucky University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Eileen Moscoso, graduate student at the University of Delaware and Grants and Pipeline teams member of the Colored Conventions Project.<\/span><\/p>\n Rosalie Hooper, graduate students in the University of Delaware Winterthur Program in American Material Culture for English\/History 641, Spring 2016 taught by P. Gabrielle Foreman.<\/span><\/p>\n Edited by\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman.<\/span><\/p>\n Cover image <\/strong>“Voter Registration, Macon, Ga.” 1867. Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.<\/span><\/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>.<\/span><\/p>\n