The convention of the colored citizens of Iowa...

The convention of the colored citizens of Iowa...

Report on the 1869 City Colored Convention held in Muscatine published in The Tipton Advertiser (January 7, 1869)

Library of Congress. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.

The Tipton Advertiser

1869-01-07

Newspaper article

--The The Convention of the colored citizens of Iowa for the purpose of selecting a State delegate to the National Convention to be held at Washington, D. D.C., on the 13th inst., transpired at the Muscatine December 31st. Some eight or nine delegates from abroad, and twice that number from Muscatine seem to have composed the Convention, which nominated Alexander Clark, of the latter place, as its delegate to Washington.

Muscatine

IA

USA

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