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…the contributions of local boarding house hosts and hostesses who provided comfortable spaces for delegates of 1830s conventions and helped to transform their communities into hubs for activism. Articulating the…
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Mobilize NOW for a Future Where Black Lives Matter
…Conveners: Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk Colored Conventions Project Commonwealth Monument Project, an initiative of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities Roundtable Event and Website Team: Lenwood Sloan, Commonwealth Monument…
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever;' and the sale of 441..." The Christian Recorder. August 17, 1876. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/
…thing of beauty is a joy forever;’ and the sale of 441…” The Christian Recorder. August 17, 1876. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/…
![[Recipe for Washing], Provincial Freeman, June 21, 1856.Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/](https://i0.wp.com/coloredconventions.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/04/boardinghousesfoodpreprecipeforwashing_06_21_1856.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
[Recipe for Washing], Provincial Freeman, June 21, 1856.Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/
[Recipe for Washing], Provincial Freeman, June 21, 1856.Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/…
"Housekeepers dread the task of polishing stoves, but Enameline." The Christian Recorder. December 22, 1898. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/
“Housekeepers dread the task of polishing stoves, but Enameline.” The Christian Recorder. December 22, 1898. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/…
Albany Enterprise Academy
…an education and cultivating the graces of literature…but Nature, as if to compensate for these disadvantages, and show that she is no respecter of color or condition, has endowed him…
"THE CHEAPEST Tea, Sugar, and Coffee Store west of the Bowery." The Colored American (New York, NY), July 13, 1839. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “In the French meat market, New Orleans.” New York Public Library…
"How To Select Flour." The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA), October 1, 1864. Accessible Archives. African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Reproduced by permission. www.accessible-archives.com/
Citation: “How To Select Flour,” ColoredConventions.org, accessed April 11, 2018, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/916….
![Du Bois, W.E.B., Collector. [African Americans and horse-drawn wagon in front of country store, two women stand on balcony]. [or 1900, 1899] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/92512904. (Accessed May 09, 2016.)](https://i0.wp.com/coloredconventions.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/04/BoardinghousesfoodprocurementAfrican-Americans-and-horse-drawn-wagon1900.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Du Bois, W.E.B., Collector. [African Americans and horse-drawn wagon in front of country store, two women stand on balcony]. [or 1900, 1899] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/92512904. (Accessed May 09, 2016.)
Citation: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector., “[African Americans and horse-drawn wagon in front of country store, two women stand on balcony],” ColoredConventions.org, accessed April 11,…
Portrait of Rev. Charles B. Ray
Portrait of Rev. Charles B. Ray of New York City. Ray was an active conductor on the Underground Railroad, editor of The Colored American, and a prominent minister and business…