Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Poet, Activist, Reformer

Sonnenberg Gardens (co-sponsor) 

Sonnenberg Gardens 

151 Charlotte Street 

Canandaigua, NY 

Marcia Robinson, Asst. Professor of Religion, Syracuse University will introduce this influential abolitionist, suffragist, poet, lecturer, and reformer who co-founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Born free in Baltimore, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.