The California State Convention of the Colored Citizens meets this day in Sacramento. Many Baptists are present. The convention’s president, Frederick G. Barbadoes, opens the day’s proceedings with these words: “For the fourth time the colored citizens of this State are assembled in Convention for the purpose of obtaining JUSTICE, and the consideration of subjects…
The Northern-based American Bible Union meets in New York. Founder and president, Thomas Armitage, is a Baptist minister. In addition to providing Bibles in non-English languages, the Union is now busy supplying Bibles to freedmen, many of whom are finally learning to read, following the post-war fall of decades of Southern laws disallowing slaves to…
Far from the South, today in Indianapolis is the inaugural gathering of the State Convention of the Colored People of Indiana. Many Baptists are among those present. Delegates note that the Declaration of Independence “declares life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as “inalienable rights of all men,” rights for which colored men “have fought,…