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Hace 3 días · Slave writers George Moses Horton, Hannah Crafts, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and post–Civil War poets Albery A. Whitman and Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. wrote skillfully about racial and nonracial topics in ways that powerfully demonstrated black agency and subjectivity against a white rule that sought to strip them of it, ...
Hace 2 días · Such a fantastic visual line, teetering almost on peril as any moment the field could take light. And there are many more American women poets from the time: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Hellen Whitman, Rose Terry Cooke, Phoebe Cary, and her sister Alice Cary, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Margaret Deland, Danske Dandridge, Emma Lazarus, Mary Hunt Affleck, Harriet Bunker Austin ...
Hace 15 horas · Prior to coming to NPQ, she was an inaugural Frances Ellen Watkins Harper editor at The 19th News. She was also a writer at Facing South, the online magazine for the Institute for Southern Studies. Her work has also been featured in The Nation, Truthout, The Appeal and other outlets.
Hace 2 días · Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
Hace 15 horas · Alice Paul was the militant, charismatic, young suffragist who produced “street theater” -- parades, pageants and pickets -- to attract attention to a federal suffrage amendment. The dazzling Broadway hit SUFFS chronicles the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment and centers Paul as its heroine. Voted “best musical” by the Outer Circle Critics, SUFFS was nominated for six Tonys.
Hace 3 días · Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African-American women speakers who followed; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others.
Hace 5 días · Watkins was born a free Black man in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1826. A cousin of the famous writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, he was deeply involved in the northern abolitionist movement and a ...
