Mural Arts Philadelphia debuted a new public art piece at Greene Street Friends School in Germantown on Thursday that celebrates Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, an acclaimed poet and abolitionist. The ...

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 ...

Frances Harper was a social reformer who agitated for abolitionism, civil rights, and women’s suffrage. She was also the best-read Black woman poet of the 19th Century. The daughter of free black ...

On May 8, 1866, with the Civil War over, key supporters of the women’s suffrage movement gathered in a church in the Union Square section of Manhattan with the goal of refocusing the nation’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Sarah Porter for The 19th) On February 22, 1911, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper — author, poet, abolitionist and suffragist — died ...

Composer Tyshawn Sorey set out to write music he hopes will speak to America’s current conversation around racial equity. He did so with a poem written 134 years ago. “Save the Boys” was written in ...

Frances E. Watkins Harper — abolitionist, temperance advocate, women’s rights fighter, author and poet — was born in 1825 in Baltimore of free black parents. She was educated at school, and when her ...