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New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, “The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century.” The sketch, “1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC,” is by Theo R. Davis, published in Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 6, 1869. Image: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection. New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism Susan Burlingame April 2...

28:30 Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American studies and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. Denise Burgher is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Delaware and project coordinator for The Colored Conventions project. They talked with us about about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in political organizing. TRANSCRIPT: Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to Take No...