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Title: Elevator - August 4, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer offers various reasons why a convention is in order for African Americans. The questions of suffrage, education, and restricting laws offer reason enough, but a convention is also a way of uniting people in a common cause.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Civil rights; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Civil rights; education; equal rights; Horse-Car Railroad Law; prejudice; suffrage; vote

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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