スミソニアン博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン博物館Instagram)「African American women faced two burdens in their fight for the vote: sexism and racism. Activist and writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper exposed racial inequalities of the movement at an 1866 suffrage convention: “You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs.” Harper was born free in Baltimore in 1825. She taught at a school run by abolitionist John Brown and became an active figure in the Underground Railroad. After the abolition of slavery, Harper continued to fight for the rights of African Americans and women. A leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, she became disillusioned with the group’s lack of commitment to anti-lynching laws. She and other African American suffragists were often excluded from the suffrage conversation by their white counterparts. In 1894, she helped form the National Association of Colored Women. Harper's literary legacy is extensive and entwined with her social and political beliefs, with both poetry and novels that broke barriers. She was one of the first published African American women writers. This portrait of Harper comes from "The Underground Rail Road" by William Still, 1872, in the @librarycongress. 🗳🗳🗳 @librarycongress, @usnatarchives and @smithsonian are bringing you #19SuffrageStories to mark 100 years since the 19th Amendment went into effect. Join us now though August 26 as we count down with 19 stories of women who worked for the vote. #BecauseOfHerStory」8月25日 22時05分