Dwight Evans for Congress

to Marian Anderson, women have shaped Philadelphia’s cultural and social identity.

This Women’s History Month, we want to uplift a few more women who left an enduring mark on our city but have too often been left out of the history books.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)

was a writer, activist, and lecturer

who’s known as “the mother of African American journalism.” She was a founding member of

the American Woman Suffrage Association, and famously exposed racial inequities at an

was a chemist who pioneered refrigeration technologies that made the food supply fresher and more affordable. She

went on to work for the FDA and became the head of the Bureau of Chemistry’s Food

Research Lab, the first woman to hold such a position.

Ora Washington
(1898–1971)
was considered the greatest

Black athlete of her generation, having set records in both tennis and basketball. She won her first national title

one year after she started playing tennis. Washington was inducted into the Black

Athletes Hall of Fame in 1976, five years after her death.

This Women’s History Month, add your name to join Dwight and commit to

the fight for a more inclusive, equitable world for all women.

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