

“As a poet, author, and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.”
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/frances-ellen-watkins-harper
(3/5/25)

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