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California State Convention of Colored Citizens

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The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the Diaries, Old Papers, and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California
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The CCSCC event held on December 11–?, 1865 in Sacramento came to a resolution to tax each Black person in order to support and fund Black education, and at the time there was only one
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The second CSCCC event was held on December 9–12, 1865 at the same St. Andrews A.M.E. Church in Sacramento. The 1865 event was shaped by the
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repeal of California’s testimony ban in 1863. Edward Duplex served as the state executive committee member during the second event.
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conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.
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Site of the first CSCC, Saint Andrews A.M.E. Church (c. 1926), Sacramento
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1902 State Convention of the California Afro-American League, Oakland
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events active from 1855 to 1902. The convention was one of several
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1880 California State Convention of Colored People, San Francisco
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1857 California State Convention of Colored People, San Francisco
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1865 California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento
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1856 California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento
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1855 California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento
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ending and the political issues in the state including Governor
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Proceedings of the Colored Citizens of the State of California
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November 20, 1855 – December 31, 1902
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Series of colored convention events in California (1855–1889)
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1889 State Convention of the California Afro-American League
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1863 California State Convention of Colored People, San Jose
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The first CSCCC event was held on November 20–22, 1855 at
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The third CSCCC event was held on October 13–?, 1857 at
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A Survey of the Negro Convention Movement, 1830-1861
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California
Site of the first CSCC, Saint Andrews A.M.E. Church (c. 1926), Sacramento
colored convention
social movement
Peter Lester
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward
Edward Duplex
Peter William Cassey
George Washington Dennis
Jeremiah Burke Sanderson
public accommodations
Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mirror of the Times
American Civil War
Leland Stanford's
St. Cyprian's African Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward
secondary school
Phoenixonian Institute
Peter William Cassey
African Americans in California
New York State Convention of Colored Citizens
Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League Convention
Sweet Vengeance Mine




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