{"id":3352,"date":"2025-05-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/?page_id=3352"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:24:34","slug":"convention-coverage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/convention-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While this exhibit focuses on&nbsp;<em>North Star<\/em>\u2018s coverage of the 1847 National Colored Convention, it is important to note that other newspapers, Black and white, took notice of such events and published pieces about them. Newspapers often reprinted other papers\u2019 articles. The&nbsp;<em>National Era<\/em>, for example, reprinted a snippet from the&nbsp;<em>Troy Telegraph<\/em>, a little-known publication that has yet to be digitized. Likewise, William C. Nell\u2019s report of the convention appeared in both&nbsp;<em>The Liberator<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>North Star<\/em>. Nineteenth-century reprinting practices extended the reach of Black voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Map: News Coverage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-archivo-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:300\">\u00bb In the Storymap below, use the left and right side arrows to navigate between pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-676bb0ec wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"News Coverage\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/cd3150ef9f5fc16bb0e4629879813698\/1847-news-coverage\/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this exhibit focuses on&nbsp;North Star\u2018s coverage of the 1847 National Colored Convention, it is important to note that other newspapers, Black and white, took notice of such events and published pieces about them. Newspapers often reprinted other papers\u2019 articles. The&nbsp;National Era, for example, reprinted a snippet from the&nbsp;Troy Telegraph, a little-known publication that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3347,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3352","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3352\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}