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National Equal Rights League Convention (NERL)
The structure and policies that this league center it self upon are those of education, equality, and integration. Unfortunately by the 20th century the NERL was nearly obsolete as there attempts of integration, and work on civil rights was greatly unsupported after the Civil War. In the early 1900's a revival began for the NERL but was soon diminished and overshadowed by the NAACP, during WW1 the NERL called for U.S. Congress to make lynching a federal crime, a huge victory, asking for W. Wilson to add a fifteenth point to his fourteen. The NAACP began gaining popularity and by the 1920's almost all official members of the NERL joined the NAACP. The downfall of the NERL is noted by their restriction of only African American persons to be allowed in to the association.

Origins of the Convention
The National Equal Rights League was founded in Syracuse, New York, 1864; with the purpose of uniting African-Americans throughout the United States. Founded in 1864 the NERL is one of the oldest human rights organizations. Created during the height of the Civil War the organization called for full and immediate citizenship and rights for all African Americans. The founders of the NERL consist of Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, and John Mercer Langston all very prominent figures for the civil rights of African Americans before, during, and after the Civil War. Branches of the NERL could be found in Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri, and most prominently in North Carolina.

Convention Meeting (1965)
The first ever meeting occurred in Cleveland, Ohio on the 29th of September 1865 with the purpose of spotlighting the necessity for change in the United States among rights of African Americans.

Resolutions
Education, Equality, and Civil rights for African Americans post Civil War.

Notable Attendees
Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, John Mercer Langston, William Monroe Trotter, Madam C.J. Walker, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Marcus Garvery, Octavius V. Catto, Charles Lewis Reason, John Rock, William Cooper Nell, and Moses Dickson.

Outcomes
From the NERL organizations came about such as National Negro Business League, Pan-African Conference, as well as the National Negro Bar Association.