Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
(1825-1911)
“A 19th-century poet, writer, abolitionist, speaker and temperance and suffrage activist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, … [a]s a member of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), … worked alongside white suffragists, and gave a stirring speech at the 1866 National Women's Rights Convention, entitled ‘We Are All Bound Up Together,’ in which she spoke about white suffragists, saying "...You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs." She left AERA to form the American Woman Suffrage Association when AERA leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made racist statements about Black men and refused to support the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted Black men the right to vote.” (Black Women's Suffrage)
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