The National Women’s History Museum is proud to collaborate with organizations nationwide to host Determined to Rise: Women’s Historical Activism for Equal Rights. The series features lively discussions on women’s history topics from the early 1830s when African American women abolitionist groups organized to fight for freedom and personhood to the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Join the National Women’s History Museum’s inaugural Determined to Rise event. We will honor Black History Month with a panel discussion about early 18th and 19th century Black women’s abolitionist groups highlighting key women and the corresponding social climate and political issues they faced.
Featured Speakers:
- Kerri Lee Alexander (Moderator): Education & Public History Fellow, National Women’s History Museum
- Jenny Masur, PhD: Author, Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around Washington, DC
- Dr. Nikki Taylor, PhD: Chair, Dept. of History Howard University; Author, Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
- Kay Wright-Lewis, PhD: Assistant Professor Howard University; Author, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World