Frances E.W. Harper & The Women of African American Justice Movements
Thanks so much for returning for another episode of the Tara Lake Show.
This week’s episode provides an introduction to, and the first installment of, a three part series on the life and work of Frances E.W. Harper — poet, author, orator, and visionary of the 19th Century who lived from 1825 to 1911. Frances E.W. Harper was a trailblazer in the anti-slavery movement and in Civil Rights and Social Justice Movements for African Americans and Women in the United States — distinguishing herself in the temperance, African American suffrage, and Women’s Suffrage movements. This episode celebrates Frances E.W. Harper’s poetry, considers Harper’s work in the context of a lineage of African American women in working in Freedom Movements in the United States, and takes a look at the highlighting of these women in recent visibility efforts.
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