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In 2020, a coalition of citizens, organizers, legislators, and educators came together to commemorate the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments by establishing a new monument in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This would be a memorial dedicated to the capital city’s significant African American community and its historic struggle for the vote. The Commonwealth Monument, located on the Irvis Equality Circle on the South Lawn of Pennsylvania’s State Capitol Grounds, features a bronze pedestal inscribed with one hundred names of change agents who pursued the power of suffrage and citizenship between 1850 and 1920.
This book is a companion to this monument and tells the stories of those one hundred freedom seekers, abolitionists, activists, suffragists, moralists, policemen, masons, doctors, lawyers, musicians, poets, publishers, teachers, preachers, housekeepers, janitors, and business leaders, among many others. In their committed advocacy for freedom, equality, and justice, these inspiring men and women made unique and lasting contributions to the standing and life of African Americans—and, indeed, the political power of all Americans—within their local communities and across the country.
Publication Date
2020
Document Type
Book
Keywords
Commonwealth Monument Project, Eighth Ward, Digital Harrisburg, 100 Voices, African Americans, Harrisburg, Center for Public Humanities, A Gathering at the Crossroads
Disciplines
African American Studies | Genealogy | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Sloan, Lenwood; Anderson, Ellis; Bardo, Olivia; Becker, Sarah; Brautigam, Britney; Braxton, Mary; Bye, Christine; Cook, Hayley; Corey, Jean Thompson; Cutting, Cate; Dickson, Chloe; Elspas, Molly; Glover, Charlotte Splawn; Heiser, Katie; Hne, Famatta; Jenkins, Matt; Gonzalez, Isabel; Goss, Dylan; Keener, Haley; Kreimer, Nicole; Lima, Adriana; Luster, Amber; Mathew, Ashley; McArdle, Katie Wingert; Myers, Sarah; Pettegrew, David; Reid, Joshua; Richardson, Mary S. Williams; Robinson, Amalia; Rockhill, Sam; Sheely, Alexis; Slader, Ellissa; Soash, Janelle; Soto, Leiby; Stoy, Isaiah; Strange, Anna; Tamrat, Lydia; Thorne, Annie; Williams, Laura Cannon; Williams, Sharonn L.; and Jackson, Calobe Jr., "One Hundred Voices: Harrisburg's Historic African American Community, 1850-1920" (2020). One Hundred Voices . 1.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/onehundredvoices/1
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This item was developed and published in collaboration with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program. The book was published in collaboration with Dr. William Caraher of the Digital Press of the University of North Dakota. The citation for the book is: Jackson, Calobe, Jr., Katie Wingert McArdle, and David Pettegrew, eds. One Hundred Voices: Harrisburg's Historic African American Community, 1850-1920 Digital Harrisburg. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2020.