100 Voices from Digital Harrisburg
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Location: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
Surnames/tags: 100_Voices Black_Heritage
On 26 Aug 2020, the Commonwealth Monument Project unveiled the Gathering At the Crossroads Monument in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A portion of the monument reads:
- "From January 15th, 2019 through June 30, 2020, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania commemorated the crossroads of two historic benchmarks - the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment, giving African-Americans the right to vote and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting the vote to women.
Harrisburg's old 8th Ward once bordered the Capitol. It served as an incubator for advocacy during the years between the two legislative landmarks - 1870 and 1920."
There are "one hundred names of change agents who pursued the power of suffrage and citizenship between 1850 and 1920" inscribed around this monument.[1] These are the "100 Voices."
A book, One Hundred Voices, Harrisburg's Historic African American Community, 1850-1920, has been published to accompany the monument.[2][3] The 100 Voices are featured on the Digital Harrisburg website.[4]
The 100 Voices WikiTree Project
The goal of this project is to:
- Get all 100 Voices from the Digital Harrisburg Project into WikiTree, and
- Get them all connected to the main tree.
- Use the power of WikiTree to illustrate the relationships that may exist between them.
- Make it easy for descendants of the 100 Voices to find and connect to their ancestors.
In addition to the above "100 Voices" there are four statues surrounding the pedestal:
| # | Name: | WikiTree Link: | Connected? | Comments: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | Frances Ellen (Watkins) Harper (1825-1911) | No | |
| 2 | William Howard Day | William Howard Day (1825-1900) | No | |
| 3 | Jacob Compton | Jacob T. Compton (1836-1905) | Yes | √ |
| 4 | Thomas Morris Chester | Thomas Morris Chester (1834-1892) | Yes | √ |
Once the above objectives have been achieved, this page will serve as a common linkage point for all 100_Voices.
Administrative Details
If you wish to join or help:
- Post a comment here on this page, or
- Post a comment in G2G using the project tag 100_Voices , or
- Send Bart a private message.
If you have info on one of the above voices, feel free to add them to WikiTree, or ask Bartley McRorie to add them for you.
When you create a profile for this project:
- Please put your name in the Comment section of the spreadsheet, (or ask Bartley McRorie to update it for you) while working on a profile.
- Please add the Category: "100 Voices, Harrisburg Pennsylvania"
- Please include this link at the bottom of their profile:
- 'Name' is one of the [[Space:100_Voices_from_Digital_Harrisburg|100 Voices from Digital Harrisburg]] whose profile may be found [https://digitalharrisburg.com/100-voices-a-d-draft/ '''here'''].
- which will display this link:
- 'Name' is one of the 100 Voices from Digital Harrisburg whose profile may be found here.
Sources
- ↑ https://digitalharrisburg.com/commonwealth/100names/
- ↑ Edited by Calobe Jackson, Jr., Katie Wingert McArdle, David Pettegrew, editors; One Hundred Voices, Harrisburg’s Historic African American Community, 1850-1920. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2020.
- ↑ A download of the book, One Hundred Voices, Harrisburg's Historic African American Community, 1850-1920 is available here.
- ↑ https://digitalharrisburg.com/
- Todd Mealy, Pennsylvania Heritage, Spring 2021; A Gathering at the Crossroads: Memorializing African American Trailblazers and a Lost Neighborhood in Harrisburg in the "Hands on History" Category.
- As a research aid: Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, published 1916; Search on Harrisburg, found on Archive.org
All Photos, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
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