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Martha S. Jones

Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University.

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The hidden story of two Black women looking out from the pages of a 19th-century book

Jan. 27, 2020 11:00 am

The hidden story of two Black women looking out from the pages of a 19th-century book

Lecturer and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is known for her work to secure women's right to vote in Philadelphia (and beyond). But Mary E. Harper's story is hidden. Two historians set out to uncover it.