American History XX: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 2, 2012

Today's edition of American History XX is about Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a freeborn African American woman who was a noted writer, abolitionist, and suffrage advocate. Historian Nell Irvin Painter fills us in on why Harper clashed with white suffragists and was written out of the history books.

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