ENLS-5010-01 English Capstone Seminar, Colored Conventions Project: 1865 State Convention of the Colored People of Louisiana, New Orleans, January 9-14

In 1864, "the black journalists of New Orleans had indeed been among those who recently formed the Union Radical Association in the black community. In response to the charge of radicalism, L'Union had declared: "Radical methods get at the root, at the source of the problem . . ." (p. 256)