Evolution of Negro Election Day’s History
How Enslaved Africans Established The First Democratic System Before The Signing of The Declaration in 1639.
Coming Soon
Short Documentary on Negro Election Day
​
Stay Tuned
Note: Every day we learn more and more about the history. Continue looking for updates
― DaShanne Stokes
“Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.”
“I have been told to whitewash my history, to delete the name "Negro" from Negro Election Day. I will not do what others have done to our history.
I have knowledge of this history. I teach it to you. But I preserve its culture. I do not delete its significance. I do not mask its origin.
I believe in the words of Marcus Garvey and I live by those words."
​
Doreen Wade President, Salem United, Inc.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
New Information about Negro Election Day celebration in the City of Boston Massachusetts in 1693
Disclaimer:
After meeting with the Curator of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, I was given permission to use this information. We will be working together regularly, with the new leadership and the Company's historians, continuing to find additional details. He said, "Many of the men who belonged to the General Court were members of the Company". I as given a tour and taught the history of the Company's relationship with the Indian community. But this story only deals with the City of Boston's part of the history. In Salem Massachusetts we are still celebrating 284 years of Negro Election Day
​
Update on Negro Election Day history: In 1693 the General Court of Massachusetts ruled that the title General Election will become Negro Election Day and it would be a principal holiday.
​
In 1831, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company wanted to stop the mixing of the races and separate itself from Negro Election Day's participation in their annual parade, so they separated themselves by honoring the "no blacks" in the Boston Common law and excluded them from participation. They also spread the name, "Nigger Election" so it separated Negro Election Day from Artillery Day.
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
​
Marcus Garvey