VHarris Writes

“Dear Miss Wheeler, I am returning herewith one of the pictures which you made for Jessie Fauset’s story…. “ Laura’s work as an...

Laura Wheeler Waring was one of the first women artists to regularly contribute illustrations to The Crisis magazine.

The movement to preserve Black Heritage Sites is underway in Philadelphia! Storytelling and Biography as Cultural Preservation

"Yours truly, for truth and right." A.N. FREEMAN If you’ve studied the history of free blacks in the 19th century north, you may have...