P. Gabrielle Foreman
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Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing
How is it possible for history to have sidelined seven full decades of early African American organizing? In this talk, attendees will learn about an ongoing campaign for Black rights which served as the prequel to the NAACP, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter movements. From 1830 through the beginning of the new century, free, fugitive, and freed Black Americans held multi-day “Colored Conventions” all across North America. African American leaders not only came together to demand Black freedom, but to advocate for all it entails then as now: educational equity, labor justice, voting, jury, and political rights, as well as freedom from state-sanctioned violence. Why didn’t we know?
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Books by P. Gabrielle Foreman
“Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake” (2023)
Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake
“The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)” (2021)
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
“Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)” (2009)
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)
“Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (New Black Studies Series)” (2009)
Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (New Black Studies Series)
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