What is it about?
Simultaneously about Black women education activists in Delaware through the Colored Conventions Movement and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's poetic, activist labor.
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Why is it important?
Demonstrates methodology for using the archives of the Colored Conventions movement and other autonomous Black archives to identify and trace the intellectual activist work of Black women.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a process which exemplified the work of so many Black women historians who though correctly identifying that the archives are resistant to Black women, they can be rich spaces of discovery as well. I look forward to reading about the women whose work and lives we have yet to know.
Denise Burgher
University of Delaware
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This page is a summary of: Recovering Black Women in the Colored Conventions Movement, Legacy A Journal of American Women Writers, January 2019, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/legacy.36.2.0256.
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