Colored Conventions Project

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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Highly recommend this keynote on the Colored Conventions! Given by Dr. Andre Johnson (@aejohnsonphd.bsky.social) at Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia. Several days of events & programs led by CCP's very own Dr. Denise Burgher. A landmark day!

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“Let Us Remain Here”: The Role of the Declaration of Independence at the Colored Conventions ther3project.substack.com/p/let-us-rem...

ther3project.substack.com“Let Us Remain Here”: The Role of the Declaration of Independence at the Colored ConventionsA Keynote Address by Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. at Mother Bethel AME Church

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Douglass Day
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Announcing Douglass Day 2027! Join us Feb 11, 2027 to transcribe early Black newspapers and magazines. Together we can make these papers open to all! We have tons of free resources coming soon to help bring Douglass Day into your class, school, or community! Register & updates: DouglassDay.org

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Douglass Day
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🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

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Douglass Day
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We are just wrapping up the first day of our summer planning meetings. Lots of new team members, ideas, and fun things to share. Douglass Day 2027 is on the way!

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Andre E. Johnson
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Confrontational and Intersectional Rhetoric: Black Lives Matter and the Shutdown of the Hernando De Soto (I-40) Bridge @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...

open.substack.comConfrontational and Intersectional Rhetoric: Black Lives Matter and the Shutdown of the Hernando De Soto (I-40) BridgeOn July 10, 2016, more than 1,000 people took to the Hernando DeSoto (I-40) bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee in an act of mass civil disobedience to disrupt and shut down traffic.
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OK next week - we swear! A little preview in the meantime... 👀 👀 👀

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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*!

Colored Conventions Project
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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*!

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What to the Colored Conventions was the Declaration of Independence? Normally we hear Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July. This year, we are trying something new. From now until Monday night, we are posting quotes every half hour from the Colored Conventions movement. coloredconventions.org

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“The struggle between the old and the new … is no longer a simple conflict between the two sets of industrial principles … but along race lines as well. The self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence invading the old slave states, have divided the house against itself.” +

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“If it is a Bill for social equality, so is the Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men have equal rights; so in the Sermon on the Mount, so is the Golden Rules, that commands us to do others as we would that others should do to us”—Frederick Douglass” +

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“To this end, I invoke the spirit of our civilization; to this end, I invoke the sentiments of humanity; to this end, I invoke the spirit which inspired the Declaration of Independence; to this end, I invoke those divine sentiments” +

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“For the staunch and hearty recognition of the principle laid down in the Declaration of Independence—that "all men are created equal"—and that the thanks of the colored people are due to the press of the country generally, so far as they endorse the same principles.” +

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“We should determine and insist upon it that a "republican form of government" is one deriving its powers from the consent of the governed—one in which taxation is the correlative of the right to be represented” +