WORKING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION:
ADVANCING BLACK WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE 1850s
This exhibit accompanies Kabria Baumgartner’s essay, “Gender Politics and the Manual Labor College Initiative at National Colored Conventions in Antebellum America” in the in-progress volume, Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age.
Credits
Curators: Sharla Fett, History Department, Occidental College and David Kim, English Department, University of Delaware, in consultation with Kabria Baumgartner, Department of History, College of Wooster.
Further Acknowledgements: The CCP Exhibits team for creating visualizations, editing, and revising this exhibit: Simone Austin, Samantha de Vera, Kelli Coles, Gwendolyn Meredith, and Sarah Patterson.
Undergraduate Researchers: History 213, Occidental College, Spring 2016: Gabriel Barrett-Jackson, Emma Cones, Tina Delany, Lindsay Drapkin, Lila Gyory, Sydney Hemmindinger, Rosa Pleasant, Reilly Torres, Victoria Walker, and Daniel Waruingi.
Special thanks to Gale, a Cengage Company, and Accessible Archives Inc.® for granting permission for the use of the materials from 19th Century U.S. Newspaper and African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
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