Feb 1st 2017
5 African American Women
@ DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 1st, from 11am - 12PM
Through story and song, attendees will learn about Phyllis Wheatley, a well known poet; Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist; Harriet Tubman, a slave who led others to freedom along the Underground Railroad; Gwendolyn Brooks, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; as well as the wife of Crispus Attucks, whose story recounts how her husband died during the Boston massacre.
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