A copy of Poems, Harper’s fourth book, was recently conserved and digitized as part of the Adopt a Book program Erin Rushing An activist, a teacher, a poet — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an ...

From a corner house in West Philadelphia, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s great-niece Queen Mother Falaka Fattah has brokered peace among warring gangs, offered at-risk youth a safe haven and won ...

The need to create a space for African-American actors to practice theater in Harrisburg was apparent to Sharia Benn shortly after moving to the area in 1995. At first she could not find a lot of ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. Philadelphia got ...

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The 19th-century fight for suffrage both brought together and divided white and black women over whether they should first focus efforts on voting rights for Black men or all women. The connection ...

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