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Colored Conventions Project

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The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more. Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence? ColoredConventions.org

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

OK next week - we swear! A little preview in the meantime... 👀 👀 👀

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thanks for hanging with us this weekend for 180 posts on the Declaration of Independence! The Colored Conventions deeply believed in the power of saying these words aloud. We need to hear & heed them. Watch this space for grand NEW things coming this *week*!

A card that says "Thanks" and has a photoshopped graphic of a dozen black and white portraits of people who attended the Colored Conventions, all combined together.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Watch this space tomorrow! In honor of the 250th, join us to follow the dozens of discussions at Colored Conventions about what the Declaration of Independence *could* mean.

Three pamphlets from the Colored Conventions.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/

Concurrence by Justice Jackson with yellow highlights on "delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more
generally."

And a footnote that says:

"See Colored Conventions Project, Conventions Records (Feb. 12,
2025), https://www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/ (archived at https://perma.cc/3ZD2-3WHS) (collecting “minutes, proceedings, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, transcripts, and images”);

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Check out the work of @adamrothman.bsky.social! We're glad to see you at #DouglassDay! Check out his work! gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00...

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The chancellor of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social greets worldwide transcribers for #DouglassDay. It is a full circle moment for us! He is the former president of the University where we launched. We thank chancellor Dennis and Eleni Assanis for their steadfast support and leadership.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of Humanities and Fine Art at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, greeting the 8000 people worldwide transcribing at #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social. Her research and leadership is legendary. We thank her for both.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We want to highlight the work of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Thanks for coming to Douglass Day. Thanks for your research and leadership! Please check out her work! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social www.hfa.ucsb.edu/deans-office

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Join our longtime satellite partner Dr. Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social on the Feb. 21 for the “Sanctuaries of Struggle: The Colored Conventions and the Black Church as Social Movement" symposium. Schedule and more info: www.facebook.com/events/75634...

Black text on cream background with an image of a church's interior in the background. Sanctuaries of Struggle: The Colored Conventions and the Black Churhc as Social Movement, 1830-1890

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Want to learn more about Sarah Loguen Fraser and the pharmacy she ran as the first woman doctor in the Dominican Republic? Check out our exhibit on Black Wealth! coloredconventions.org/black-wealth...

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Colored Conventions movement was one of the longest campaigns for civil rights in US history, from 1830-1900s Black communities organized 600+ state & national conventions to fight for Black civil rights and freedom—voting, legal, labor & educational rights Learn more: ColoredConventions.org

Part 1 of the Colored Conventions Mural in Philadelphia. This panel shows a variety of images, including photographs of famous leaders at the Conventions alongside views of the convention assemblies.

Part 2 of the Colored Conventions Mural in Philadelphia. This panel shows a variety of images, including photographs of Black protests in the 21 century. The mural also includes images of memorials to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

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