Women's History Month Featured Leader: Frances E.W. Harper

In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:

Frances E. W. Harper

Abolitionist, feminist, and poet (1825 – 1911)
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• Most prominent African-American poet to reach acclaim after Phyllis Wheatley
• Many of Harper’s poems capture the South during reconstruction
• Raised by an aunt and uncle who ran a school and worked in a bookstore, where she developed a love of reading
• Became a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society of Maine until emancipation, when she advocated for the rights of former slaves and founded the National Association of Colored Women