Delegates and Attendees

This section provides brief biographies of the delegates 1871 convention in South Carolina, who hailed from all over the South. Some of the delegates in this convention later organized and attended the 1884 State Conference of Colored Men of Florida. Coverage of the Colored Men’s Convention in Mobile, Alabama, 1865, appears in the New Orleans Tribune and the Chicago Tribune providing more information about the many delegates who attended both the South Carolina and Alabama conventions.

» The names of the delegates are listed below, and their biographies, if available, are listed under the state they represented. Click on the state name to be taken to that page.

Alabama

James T. Rapier

Arkansas

John H. Johnson

Florida

Jonathan C. Gibbs

Josiah T. Walls

Georgia

Edwin Belcher

Charles L. Bradwell

Tunis G. Campbell

John H. Deveaux

William A. Golden

William H. Harrison

John McCluskey

William Henry Noble

John F. Quarles

James Merilus Simms

Henry McNeal Turner

L. W. West

Louisiana

Felix. C. Antoine

J. Henri Burch

Edward Butler

Edgar Davis

Benjamin Geddis

W. G. Johnson

George E. Paris

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback

Maryland

Isaac Myers

Mississippi

S. H. Scott

North Carolina

Thomas A. Sykes

South Carolina

Benjamin A. Boseman

Richard H. Cain

Wilson Cooke

Robert Brown Elliott

Henry E. Hayne

Samuel J. Lee

William Beverly Nash

Joseph H. Rainey

Alonzo J. Ransier

William J. Whipper

John White

Frank Williamson

Tennessee

Andrew J. Flowers

Texas

Richard Allen

J. DeBruhl

James Green

Richard Nelson

David G. Scott

J. H. Townsend

Credits

Written by Samantha de Vera, University of California, San Diego.

Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman.

Acknowledgements: Samantha de Vera and Michelle Byrnes for further edits, visualization contributions, and technical assistance.


For Generations to Come: Southern HBCUs and their Colored Conventions Roots

CITATION: Nelson, Rachel and Sam de Vera. “For Generations to Come: Southern HBCUs and their Colored Conventions Roots.” Colored Conventions Project. 2025. https://coloredconventions.org/hbcus/.

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