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The Colored Conventions: Black Political Organizing in the Gilded Age — Fexingo History

The Colored Conventions: Black Political Organizing in the Gilded Age — Fexingo History

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 In this episode of The Gilded Age, Lucas and Luna explore a crucial but often overlooked aspect of the era: African American political organizing through the Colored Conventions movement. While much attention is given to the Robber Barons and labor unrest, Black communities in the North and Midwest were holding state and national conventions from the 1830s through the 1890s, demanding civil rights, education, and economic opportunity. Lucas highlights the 1870 National Convention of the Colored Men of America in Washington, D.C., which met just weeks after the ratification of the 15th Amendment, and features figures like Frederick Douglass, John Mercer Langston, and Robert Brown Elliott. The episode also covers the tensions between Black leaders during the Gilded Age, including debates over emigration to Africa versus fighting for rights at home, and the role of Black women like Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. The conversation touches on the 1883 Supreme Court decisions that gutted the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and how the conventions responded to the rise of Jim Crow. Lucas brings the story up to the 1890s, when the movement faded as lynching and disenfranchisement intensified. This episode sheds light on a vibrant, organized push for equality that ran parallel to the better-known labor and political struggles of the Gilded Age.

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