The Making of a Social Movement: The Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacies of the Colored Convention Movement
Oct. 18–19, 2022
Event
The Colored Conventions Project at the Center for Black Digital Research will host a hybrid symposium that will focus on the rhetorical artistry and dynamism that made up the Colored Conventions and Black nineteenth-century America. This event builds on the first scholarly gathering on the Colored Conventions in 2015 and the subsequent volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press).
Featured speakers: Leslie Alexander, Anthea Butler, Marlena Daut, and Kirk Wilson
Convener: Andre E. Johnson, CBDR/Just Transformation Mellon Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at University of Memphis
