Philadelphia’s Black Women Leaders and the Ethic of Equality – Virtual Platform

Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha Traylor

Authors of They Carried Us

Americans believe our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are rooted in the idea of equality. But from 1619 to the current day, the United States never embraced an ethic of equality: it fell to those who were excluded from those documents’ ideals to define what equality means in everyday life. The women of They Carried Us were driven by that ethic, aiming to expand those who were “equal.” Whether surmounting the obstacles of race, gender or both, their practice of equality changed the sectors in which they worked and the city at large.

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