{"id":409,"date":"2016-10-03T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:33:37","slug":"colored-conventions-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/03\/colored-conventions-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Conventions Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colored Conventions<\/a> is a project that includes documents containing the minutes from free and fugitive Blacks’ “Colored Conventions” dating from 1830 to after the Civil War, striving to create awareness and social justice activism by educating scholars through research opportunities. These documents allow the voices (fighting for justice both nationally and locally) of influential figures in the movements \u2013 including writers, organizers, church leaders, editors, etc. \u2013 to be remembered through compiled materials, many of which are rare or even out-of-print.<\/p>\n

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It is interactive in that it allows the option and instructions for any user to contribute to transcribing the minutes for an easier reading format (and bars indicating what percentage is completed). This gives us a different and more modern way at looking at historical nineteenth-century Black organizing documents that would otherwise be buried.\"Transcribe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a whole teaching\u00a0section\u00a0with dropdown tabs dedicated to the pedagogic goals of teachers using the site as a guide. It is designed to help teachers with curriculum, transforming the minutes of a convention into engaging cultural biographies, visual artifacts, and interactive media; even includes sample assignments, resources for students to publish online through a digital humanities platform so they can further explore and engage, along with\u00a0research guides.<\/p>\n

Sections for each exhibit cover different topics surrounding the convention – one example includes\u00a0black boardinghouses, black wealth, and African American women\u2019s economic power. In addition,\u00a0a symposium page that links us to the participants\u2019 abstracts, bios, and videos, as well as the itinerary and a recap of Twitter activity during the symposium.\u00a0This allows us to relive the experience (or experience it for the\u00a0first time) in a sense that it incorporates social media and tools of the digital age that creates a bridge of communication and connection with scholars studying historical racial topics. The website uses online tools like\u00a0Storify – making a slideshow that allows users to navigate through Twitter posts, which are compiled by searching for the hashtag #2015ccp.<\/p>\n

Presentations (display):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conventions are organized by year and region\/national\/state. The website is accessible and user-friendly for both students and teachers.\u00a0Each link to a convention has a document viewer featuring the scanned PDF version of the minutes, in which users can scroll through the pages and zoom in if needed, followed by a user-friendly typed transcription.<\/p>\n

The exhibit page consists of an introduction discussing the issue at hand and exposure to the forms of political activism during the conventions movement, then an outline mentioning factors like where the participants are from\/how far they travelled to get to the convention and which particular conventions the exhibit will focus on.\u00a0Users can navigate the exhibit with the right-hand menu bar which has interactive maps\u00a0and\u00a0menus, and biographical entries on the people, places, and culture of the conventions movement.\u00a0By panning around the interactive map \u2013 jumping from one location to another and naming the participants \u2013 we are able to grasp somewhat of an idea of the limitations\/obstacles participants may have faced regarding travel routes and transportation. This is important to learn about the lives and social networks of the delegates \u2013 the processes that made the conventions possible.<\/p>\n

\"Interactive<\/a><\/p>\n

Slideshows on the African American attendees’ boardinghouses and dining menu gives information paragraphs with the option of clicking on specific items to find out more about it – a glimpse into their daily lives.<\/p>\n

\"Menu\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pages of the exhibit are organized with a\u00a0transitional statement that refers back to the recently discussed topic and how it relates to the next. Users can either go in chronological order or jump back to the beginning to access information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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