Author Talk: Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha M. Traylor

Join us for a discussion with authors Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha M. Traylor. Their book, They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia’s Black Women Leaders, will introduce you to some of Philadelphia’s fiercest Black women leaders, ranging from the first Black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694) to the woman whose childhood experiences led her to become a surgeon and medical advisor to celebrities. All of the women “bring it” as activists— in community and movement work, business and civic institutions, education, faith, medicine, law and government, journalism, sports, and the arts. And they have had larger-than-life impacts on the city, the country, and the world.  

Historical research and original interviews of contemporary women place Philadelphia’s Black women on center stage. Their power comes not just from what they did as individuals, but from how their efforts snowballed into a Philadelphia community of women which spanned geographies, sectors, and time.  

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