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Transcribe Harper! • Join Our Commemoration of Frances E. W. Harper

Transcribe Harper! • Join Our Commemoration of Frances E. W. Harper

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Help us transcribe the records of Frances E. W. Harper and preserve this ground-breaking activist and author’s legacy! By joining our transcribe-a-thon, you will make Harper’s letters, essays, newspaper pieces, and published writing fully searchable and...
The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon

The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon

#DigBlk, Center for Black Digital Research, News

#Harper200 National Read-a-thon is an invitation to readers to engage with the work of Frances E. W. Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday! We invite individuals, classes, and organizations to join a virtual collective convened by PSUs Center for Black Digital...
2025 Symposium: Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825-2025

2025 Symposium: Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825-2025

Conferences, News

We are excited to share that the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and the Africana Research Center at Penn State will be hosting an in-person symposium on September 19-21, 2025–just days before Frances Harper’s 200th birthday. We invite you to attend in...
Call for Proposals: Frances E.W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward

Call for Proposals: Frances E.W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward

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SUBMIT PROPOSAL How do we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frances E.W. Harper (1825-2025), the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century? As part of its year-long programming, the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, joined...
Mural Dedication: The Colored Conventions Movement and Beyond in Philadelphia

Mural Dedication: The Colored Conventions Movement and Beyond in Philadelphia

#DigBlk, Center for Black Digital Research, News

Friday, October 28 • 4–6pm Dedication at 4pmFollowed by a block party with a DJ and food trucks The Michael’s Org Courtyard Apts.1021 S. 4th StreetPhiladelphia » VIEW MEDIA RELEASE • » VIEW DIGITAL EXHIBIT The Colored Conventions Project and Mural Arts...
The Making of a Social Movement: The Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacies of the Colored Convention Movement

The Making of a Social Movement: The Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacies of the Colored Convention Movement

#DigBlk, Center for Black Digital Research, Conferences, Events, News

Hybrid Symposium • Oct. 18–19, 2022 The Colored Conventions Project at the Center for Black Digital Research will host a hybrid symposium that will focus on the rhetorical artistry and dynamism that made up the Colored Conventions and Black nineteenth-century America....
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  • Call for Proposals: Frances E.W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward
  • Mural Dedication: The Colored Conventions Movement and Beyond in Philadelphia
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