California State Convention of Colored Citizens

These events were composed of individuals such as Peter Anderson, Peter Lester, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward, Edward Duplex, Peter William Cassey, George Washington Dennis, John Jamison Moore, and Jeremiah Burke Sanderson; as well as organizations including churches, literary societies, and social groups from across the state. == History ==

1855 Sacramento The first CSCCC event was held on November 20–22, 1855 at Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church (St. Andrews A.M.E. Church) in Sacramento. The event had 49 delegates that represented 10 counties (out of 27 total counties). In the mid-1850s after the first CSCC, Jonas H. Townsend and Mifflin Wistar Gibbs founded the Mirror of the Times, an African American weekly newspaper in San Francisco; which was financially supported by the CSCC. Edward Duplex served as a delegate from Yuba County for the first event. 1856 Sacramento 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 American Civil War ending and the political issues in the state including Governor Leland Stanford's repeal of California’s testimony ban in 1863. They 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 secondary school in the state accepting Black students, the Phoenixonian Institute (opened in 1861) in San Jose, California. Rev. Peter William Cassey had helped organize the 1865 event. == List of events ==

• 1855 California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento • 1856 California State Convention of Colored Citizens, Sacramento • 1889 State Convention of the California Afro-American League • 1902 State Convention of the California Afro-American League, Oakland == See also ==