Melissa Benbow Spring 2019
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  • Introduction
  • Who was Singing?
    • The AME Church and Afro-Protestant Leadership
    • Delegates and Attendees
    • Fisk Jubilee Singers
    • Black Civil War Soldiers
    • Choirs
  • What Did They Sing?
    • Anti-Slavery Songs
    • Spirituals
    • Patriotic Songs
    • Hymns
  • Where Did They Sing?
  • Why Did They Sing?
    • Religious Exercise
    • Celebration
    • Protest
  • Music and Activism Through the Years
  • Teaching
  • CREDITS
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Music in the Colored Conventions

The Legacy of Colored Conventions Music

The Power of Raising Our Voices Together

The Power of Unified Voices during the 2014 Protest at Mall of America. 

In 2014, more than 2,000 people congregated at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to protest the unjust killings of unarmed Black people by police. While the clip below is not singing, their chant, much like singing, unifies them as a collective in support of one political idea. 

Watch the video below to see emotional impact of a collective of people speaking in harmony. 

Viewing » TO STAY OR TO GO?: THE NATIONAL EMIGRATION CONVENTION OF 1854

An exhibit in the collection of the Colored Conventions Project: Bringing 19th-century Black Organizing to Digital Life
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