Title

Ardent Activist: Anne E. Amos

Authors

Anna Strange, Messiah UniversityFollow
Michaela Magners, Messiah University

Files

Description

Presented on Friday, February 21 as part of Messiah College’s 2020 Humanities Symposium. This exhibit, “Vulnerabilities & Securities in Historic Harrisburg: From Abolition to Suffrage,” was produced by the Center for Public Humanities Student Fellows and Dr. Sarah Myers’s Public History Class.

Amos was involved in the temperance movement in Harrisburg. As a founding member of the Independent Order of Daughters of Temperance, she served as the Grand Recording Scribe and District Grand Deputy of the Good Samaritan Council, no. 1. The Council listed under her address on South Avenue functioned as a political hub in the Eighth Ward. Serving different roles in various social organizations, Amos was committed to what she viewed as the intertwined causes of temperance, women's suffrage, and the betterment of the African American community in Harrisburg. At the 1902 Colored Ministers Conference in Harrisburg, Amos was the sole female speaker, joining other politicians and influential citizens such as Governor William Stone, Mayor Vance McCormick, Professor John P. Scott, and Mr. Dennee Bibb.

This poster was edited by Dr. Jean Corey, Katie Wingert, and Dr. Sarah Myers.

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

Digital Harrisburg, women, urban, diversity, multicultural, Messiah College, Messiah University, Pennsylvania

Disciplines

African American Studies | United States History | Women's History

Recommended Citation

Strange, Anna and Magners, Michaela, "Ardent Activist: Anne E. Amos" (2020). Women of the Eighth Ward. 5.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/women/5