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HARPER AT 200<\/h3>\n

COMMUNITY OF WOMEN ACTIVISTS<\/h1>\n

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Click on the portraits below to read the biographies of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s contemporaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mary Miles Bibb<\/h3>\n

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Mary Brown<\/h3>\n

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary<\/h3>\n

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Katherine D. Chapman<\/h3>\n

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Edmonia Highgate<\/h3>\n

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Victoria Earle Matthews<\/h3>\n

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Jane P. Merritt<\/h3>\n

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Barbara Ann Steward<\/h3>\n

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Ida B. Wells<\/h3>\n

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Frances Willard<\/h3>\n

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