THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC (G.A.R.) CIVIL WAR MUSEUM & ARCHIVE
Presents a New Program via ZOOM
Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 1pm
Women’s’ History Month Program
“Lucretia Coffin Mott” by Prof. Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
Born on January 3, 1793, in Nantucket, MA, Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She came from a family of abolitionists. Her parents were Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin. She was a cousin of Benjamin Franklin.
She believed in reforming the status of women in society after she was excluded, with other women delegates, from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. Mott was a firm supporter of African American rights and she was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society. Mott’s legacy is connected to Camp William Penn, as her property was adjacent to the grounds where first African American soldiers were trained to join the Union forces in 1863. In this slide-illustrated talk Dr. Anadolu-Okur will highlight Lucretia Mott’s achievements, her contributions to the development of abolitionist discourse, women’s rights, and the alliances she established with Frederick Douglass and William L. Garrison during one of the most contentious eras of American history.
Dr. Nilgün Anadolu-Okur is the Presidential Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in African American and American Studies. She has two Fulbright appointments internationally and she has received grants and national awards in humanities. Currently she serves as chair of the Faculty Senate Status of Women Committee and as the Graduate Director of her department. In 1990s as the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) Commonwealth Speaker she toured Pennsylvania and lectured on Underground Railroad and Black Abolitionists. She is the co-founder of the “Annual Underground Railroad Conference at Temple University,” since 2003. She has authored books on African American Studies and her articles are published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Black Studies, Gender Issues, Human and Society. Her research has a broad spectrum ranging from theory and methodology in Africology and Afrocentricity, race and racism, women’s rights, abolition, Black Women authors (19th to 21st century), African American history, and motherhood in antiquity.
Her recent book is titled: Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851.
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