A Colored Convention
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A Colored Convention
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Chronicling America
Publisher
Daily Dispatch
Date
1869-05-07
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A COLORED CONVENTION. The following address has been issued by the negroes of this city:
"To the Colored Men of Virginia: Brethren,--After -- After mature deliberation, a mass meeting of the colored men of Richmond was held on the 5th day of May, 1869. It was voted unanimously to issue a call for a convention of the colored men of the State, to be held in Richmond on the 27th day of May, 1869.
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"The total exclusion of colored citizens from any position of trust or profit, and from the jury-box especially, demands and ought to receive the consideration of every colored man within the State.
"Whatever other subjects you may deem of sufficient importance to bring before the Convention, this exclusion, brethren, is the all all-absorbing question of the present, and
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must call forth our earnest action by petition, by personal action, by protest, and by what votes we have, until justice is done. The right secured of voting, irrespective of color, will necessarily restore to us other rights of which we are now deprived. We therefore cordially and respectfully invite you from every part of the State to meet in
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Richmond (by delegates) on the day specified to consult upon the issues at present afflicting us-politically, - politically, financially, and socially. Justice to ourselves can be no injustice to any.
"Joseph Cox, Chairman. "William H. Lester, Secretary."
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A committee to make the necessary arrangements for the convention has been appointed, as follows: Joseph Cox, William H. Lester, Lewis Lindsey, Cornelius Harris, Rev. William Troy, Rev. James Fuller, Alpheus Roper, Peter Mathews, William Isam, W. J. P. Bowe, Robert L. Hobson.
A COLORED CONVENTION. The following address has been issued by the negroes of this city:
"To the Colored Men of Virginia: Brethren,--After -- After mature deliberation, a mass meeting of the colored men of Richmond was held on the 5th day of May, 1869. It was voted unanimously to issue a call for a convention of the colored men of the State, to be held in Richmond on the 27th day of May, 1869.
[PAGE 02]
"The total exclusion of colored citizens from any position of trust or profit, and from the jury-box especially, demands and ought to receive the consideration of every colored man within the State.
"Whatever other subjects you may deem of sufficient importance to bring before the Convention, this exclusion, brethren, is the all all-absorbing question of the present, and
[PAGE 03]
must call forth our earnest action by petition, by personal action, by protest, and by what votes we have, until justice is done. The right secured of voting, irrespective of color, will necessarily restore to us other rights of which we are now deprived. We therefore cordially and respectfully invite you from every part of the State to meet in
[PAGE 04]
Richmond (by delegates) on the day specified to consult upon the issues at present afflicting us-politically, - politically, financially, and socially. Justice to ourselves can be no injustice to any.
"Joseph Cox, Chairman. "William H. Lester, Secretary."
[PAGE 05]
A committee to make the necessary arrangements for the convention has been appointed, as follows: Joseph Cox, William H. Lester, Lewis Lindsey, Cornelius Harris, Rev. William Troy, Rev. James Fuller, Alpheus Roper, Peter Mathews, William Isam, W. J. P. Bowe, Robert L. Hobson.
Convention Minutes Item Type Metadata
Convention Type
State Convention
City
Richmond
State
VA
Country
USA
Start Date
1869-05-27
Provenance
Library of Congress
Event ID
1869.VA-05.27.RICH
Citation
“A Colored Convention,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/1908.