For Generations to Come: Southern HBCUs and their Colored Conventions Roots
Josiah T. Walls and Jonathan C. Gibbs were the delegates for Florida.
Read Walls’s and Gibbs’s biographies available in the left tab.
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.
An exhibit in the collection of the Colored Conventions Project
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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