Episode 4 - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Black Suffragist in the Spotlight

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wore many hats throughout her illustrious life. She is not well known today, but during the 19th century, she was a household name in the United States.

Resources

1. Bell, Janet Dewart. “Blackbirds Singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century.” pp. 25-34. New York: The New Press, 2024.

2. Petrino, Elizabeth A. "We are rising as a people": Frances Harper's
radical views on class and racial equality in Sketches of Southern Life"
(2005). English Faculty Publications. 71.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-facultypubs/71

3. Still, William. “The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic
narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and
death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom.” Philadelphia, Pa.,
Porter & Coates, 1872.

4. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. “African American Woman and the Struggle for
the Vote, 1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University
Press,1998.
Black Suffragist in the Spotlight is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle. Music: “Passage” by Moija (Uppbeat); “Future” and “Good Feelings” by Aleksandr Shamaluev (Ashamevalue Music). Cover art: Photographs of Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs courtesy of the Library of Congress.