Euclid Ave mural—on Black women lifting up one another, because as Morrison said, “the function of freedom is to free someone else.”
Toni Morrison – Cleveland, Ohio
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Miriam Davis Colt – Allen County, Kansas
Miriam Davis Colt & the Vegetarian Settlement Company—choosing what to carry and what to leave behind.
Sojourner Truth – Battle Creek, Michigan
Harmonia was biracial, socially lively (it was rumored to be a bastion of free love!), and included a store, a blacksmith shop, and a seminary.
Kate Chopin – St. Louis, Missouri
Literary Landscapes: 4232 McPherson Ave.—Michaella A. Thornton on parenting, criticism, and Kate Chopin’s final home.
Helen Hooven Santmyer – Xenia, Ohio
Greene County Courthouse — Jacob Bruggeman on civic pride and the settler colonial legacy of Helen Hooven Santmyer’s Xenia, Ohio.
Zitkála-Šá – Richmond, Indiana
Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.
Naomi Shihab Nye – Ferguson, Missouri
Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.