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The \u201cConventions\u201d of the Conventions:
The Practices of Black Political Citizenship<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This exhibit takes as its focus the rituals of the conventions\u2014the carefully crafted actions repeated by delegates and audience members again and again over years, and sometimes decades. By identifying moments throughout the conventions in which delegates, speakers, and audience members perform these actions, this exhibit traces the rituals\u2014or conventions\u2014of the conventions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Credits and Citations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Curated and Written by<\/strong> Carolyne King, PhD Candidate in English at the University of Delaware, and Erica L. Ball, Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Created for Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman\u2019s History\/English 641 class, Spring 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by<\/strong> P. Gabrielle Foreman and Sarah Patterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional contributions:<\/strong> Exhibit Migration 2025-2026 by Christiana Dillard, University of Pennsylvania, and Lauren Cooper, Penn State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks<\/strong> to Gale, a Cengage Company, and Accessible Archives Inc.\u00ae for granting permission for the use of the materials from 19th Century U.S. Newspaper<\/a><\/em> and African American Newspapers: The 19th Century<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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