THE FIGHT FOR BLACK MOBILITY:
TRAVELING TO MID-CENTURY CONVENTIONS
With a focus on news, migration and the popular lecture circuit during the 1850s, this exhibit investigates the ways men and women delegates and collaborating activists in their social networks claimed Philadelphia as site for an inter-state and international movement furthering race uplift.
Credits
Curators: Jessica Conrad and Samantha deVera, Graduate Students, Department of English, University of Delaware.
Edited by Sarah L. Patterson and P. Gabrielle Foreman.
Undergraduate Researchers: Nathan Nikolic, Gwen Meredith, and Caleb Trotter.
Graduate Student Researchers: Special thanks to the ENGL/HIST 641,“Black Activism and Print Culture in the 19th Century and the Digital Age” Spring 2017 seminar, taught by P. Gabrielle Foreman for their research and fact checking.
Cover Image “The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia.” 1850. Image Courtesy of Library Company of Philadelphia.
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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