A Zoom Presentation by Dr. Sarah Lynn Patterson
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Over seven decades, from 1830 until 1900, tens of thousands of Black men and women from different walks of life attended meetings publicly advertised as “Colored Conventions.”

Professor Sarah Lynn Patterson will discuss the rise and the fall of the Colored Conventions movement as a way of understanding dialogues about progressive politics at the turn of the twentieth century.

Professor Patterson is a founder of the award-winning archive www.ColoredConventions.org and an editor and contributor to The Colored Conventions Movement (UNC Press, 2021).

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