#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 Research/#DigBlk over a year of reading in community.
Hosted on this website the project features a suggested reading calendar of digitized texts, from lectures to short stories, from the groundbreaking novel, Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted (1892) to her celebrated poems. All sections are accompanied by a curated video series produced by Harper experts.
The Harper Read-a-thon invites individuals or any group of readers–students in classes, members of reading groups or book clubs, friends and family–to use our resource to create their own reading adventure. Participants on their own can curate texts, select durations, design programming to fit their own needs. Stay in touch via our digital guestbook as you dive into a treasure trove of writing by this fearless advocate for Civil Rights who was the most beloved Black poet and the most prolific Black novelist of her time.