Ofstad Reading Series: Dr. Tabitha Lowery, “‘Thank God for Little Children’: Frances Harper’s Children’s Poetry, Social Justice, and the Archives in the Twenty-First Century”

Dr. Tabitha Lowery, visiting Ofstad scholar, will be presenting this free public lecture as part of the Ofstad Reading Series. In it, she will address issues related to the need for archival work, which helps amplify forgotten nineteenth-century Black authors’ voices and how to understand Black-authored newspapers and texts that cultivated their own spaces for Black children’s development and activism.

This event will also be livestreamed via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91022947669?pwd=TWloZjc0N1haUFdpeFpUV3MwSytNUT09

Please email Dr. Sara Day (sday@truman.edu) for the Zoom passcode.