Field Notes: Lineage
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Ruffin built the platform — literally, a printing press — that gave Black women's voices a national newspaper of their own for the first time.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Ruffin built the platform — literally, a printing press — that gave Black women's voices a national newspaper of their own for the first time.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Harper made her pen a tool of abolition, using poetry and public speaking to carry the antislavery and women's rights case to audiences across the country.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Harper made her pen a tool of abolition, using poetry and public speaking to carry the antislavery and women's rights case to audiences across the country.
Mary Church Terrell
Terrell used education and organization as tools of resistance, building institutions for Black women that outlasted her own long fight for equality.
Mary Church Terrell
Terrell used education and organization as tools of resistance, building institutions for Black women that outlasted her own long fight for equality.
Ida B. Wells
Wells turned grief into data, transforming the murder of her friends into a national reckoning with lynching built on evidence rather than rumor.
Ida B. Wells
Wells turned grief into data, transforming the murder of her friends into a national reckoning with lynching built on evidence rather than rumor.
Sojourner Truth
Truth turned her own life story into public testimony, using her voice as both witness and weapon against slavery and inequality.
Sojourner Truth
Truth turned her own life story into public testimony, using her voice as both witness and weapon against slavery and inequality.
Harriet Tubman
Tubman turned the terrain of her own enslavement into a map for other people's freedom, then kept walking that road for the rest of her life.
Harriet Tubman
Tubman turned the terrain of her own enslavement into a map for other people's freedom, then kept walking that road for the rest of her life.