Bringing an Earlier Era of Activism to Digital Life

P. Gabrielle Foreman, founding faculty director of the Colored Conventions Project, is the 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities. (Submitted photo)

Article by Dan Bernardi

Bringing seven decades of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life is the mission of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). Co-founded by faculty director P. Gabrielle Foreman, the CCP is a scholarly and community research project focused on digitally preserving Black political activism from the 1830s to 1890s, some of which occurred in this region, near Syracuse University and across Central New York...

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