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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was a household name in the 19th century—easily as prominent as Frederick Douglass. In an age, when Black people were routinely diminished as intellectually lacking, she was the 1st Black American woman to publish a short story, was an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and lecturer.

“You white women speak here of rights,” she said. “I speak of wrongs.” —Francis Harper, May 8, 1866

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