Teaching Guides to Use in K-12 and AP/College Classes
In spring 2021, the CCP Curriculum Committee released 16 teaching guides that can be taught in conjunction with the volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (2021), edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Paterson.
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Where Did They Eat? Where Did They Stay? Interpreting Material Culture of Black Women’s Domesticity in the Context of the Colored Conventions
Psyche Williams-Forson
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Flights of Fancy: Black Print, Collaboration, and Performances in “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Rejected by the National Convention, 1843)”
Derrick R. Spires
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The Organ of the Whole: Colored Conventions, the Black Press, and the Question of National Authority
Benjamin Fagan
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As the True Guardians of Our Interests: The Ethos of Black Leadership and Demography at Antebellum Colored Conventions
Sarah Lynn Patterson
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Gender Politics and the Manual Labor College Initiative at National Colored Conventions in Antebellum America
Kabria Baumgartner
Stake Claim or Take Flight: The Birth of Southern Conventions after the Civil War
Selena Sanderfer Doss
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Further Silence upon Our Part Would Be an Outrage: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Colored Conventions Movement
Andre E. Johnson
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None but Colored Testimony against Him: The California Colored Convention of 1855 and the Origins of the First Civil Rights Movement in California
Jean Pfaelzer
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