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Why transcribe?

Help expand the vast history of an early movement for civil rights in the United States and Canada!

For the past three years, our team of researchers has been collecting records about the Colored Conventions. For this round, we have a special focus on the conventions before and after the passage of the 14th Amendment to establish birthright citizenship and due process for all.

The Colored Conventions were state and national meetings held by free and formerly enslaved African Americans to debate their collective struggles. More than 10,000 delegates attended 700+ Colored Conventions. At these meetings, delegates talked about voting rights, education, labor, business, and a whole lot more. The conventions were highly democratic spaces at a time when Black people were denied access to the voting booth or the jury box.

For more about the Colored Conventions and where the data from Douglass Day will eventually be available, go to coloredconventions.org.

PS: Don't miss the hundreds of records and thousands of names transcribed by everyone on Douglass Day 2022, now on Omeka.ColoredConventions.org!