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A. Clark | Address of the Colored State Convention
to the People of Iowa in Behalf of Their
Enfranchisement, 1868

Throughout the nineteenth century, African their allies and friends, a clear and focused under-
Americans met in local, state, regional, and standing of how they could best help advance
national conventions to discuss their ongoing the concerns of African Americans. This 1868 Iowa
freedom struggle and develop a united front in convention address makes an argument on behalf
terms of liberation and uplift goals, strategies, and of black male enfranchisement. It was prepared
tactics. These conventions modeled self- definition and delivered to the convention by A. CLARk,
and self-reliance. These critical meetings also chairman of the Committee on Address. What
both helped unite African Americans as a people are the key elements of that argument? Are that
and present to their white compatriots, notably argument and its rationale persuasive?
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