Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Keynote Talk

Join Coppin State & JHU for a lecture and traveling exhibit on Frances E.W. Harper and Black women who shaped history.
About this Event

Life for Black people in 19th-century America was marked by great struggles, transitions, and triumphs. Black women stood at the forefront of every major historical moment, using their individual and collective power to create pathways to political, educational, spiritual, and economic “uplift” for their people. Among them were Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Fanny Jackson Coppin, remarkable advocates, suffragists, and lecturers whose legacies continue to shape generations.

Please join us for a community lecture and traveling exhibit exploring the lives and work of Harper and Coppin, namesake of Coppin State University. This program is a collaboration between the Coppin State University Library and the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts at Johns Hopkins University.