March Womens' History Month

Friday March 6, 2026 -Virtual Event

Presenter: Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, PhD
Lecture: The title of the talk is: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: A Woman for All Seasons, Born in Baltimore, poet, fiction writer, journalist, and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the only child of free African American parents. She embarked on a career as a traveling speaker on the abolitionist circuit. She helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and wrote frequently for anti-slavery newspapers, earning her a reputation as the mother of African American journalism.

Author, archaeologist, public historian, preservationist, lecturer, Cheryl LaRoche has been researching the Underground Railroad and women’s escape experiences for thirty years. LaRoche also studies Black communities and their relationship to the Black church. Her biography Apostle of Liberation: AME Bishop William Paul Quinn and the Underground Railroad brings to life the little known activities of one of the AME church’s most active bishops. The book is a follow-up to her first book, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: the Geography of Resistance. She is an Associate Research Professor in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture at the University of Maryland.

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