Join the collaborators of One Hundred Voices: Harrisburg’s Historic African American Community, 1850 - 1920 for a featured live-stream discussion. The panelists for this conversation will be Calobe Jackson, Lenwood Sloan, Sharonn Williams, and David Pettegrew. This event will be moderated by Jean Corey.

About the Book:

In 2020, a coalition of citizens, organizers, legislators, and educators came together to commemorate the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments by establishing a new monument in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This would be a memorial dedicated to the capital city’s significant African American community and its historic struggle for the vote. The Commonwealth Monument, located on the Irvis Equality Circle on the South Lawn of Pennsylvania’s State Capitol Grounds, features a bronze pedestal inscribed with one hundred names of change agents who pursued the power of suffrage and citizenship between 1850 and 1920.This book is a companion to this monument and tells the stories of those one hundred freedom seekers, abolitionists, activists, suffragists, moralists, policemen, masons, doctors, lawyers, musicians, poets, publishers, teachers, preachers, housekeepers, janitors, and business leaders, among many others. In their committed advocacy for freedom, equality, and justice, these inspiring men and women made unique and lasting contributions to the standing and life of African Americans—and, indeed, the political power of all Americans—within their local communities and across the country.

One Hundred Voices is a product of the Commonwealth Monument Project, an initiative of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism – Harrisburg Peace Promenade. The Foundation for Enhancing Communities is the fiscal agent for the Peace Promenade’s Projects.