Valerie Harris
"Darn This War!" The dream summer in Paris ends abruptly
Settling into her summer sojourn, Laura began plotting her version of the grand tour. “From Paris I intended to go to Geneva and then to...
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Laura Wheeler Waring Biography Blog
Valerie Harris
Mar 263 min
Sisters Abroad: Laura Wheeler Waring and Jessie Fauset, Paris, 1914
Although Laura was now in Paris independent of her Academy classmates, she was not alone for long. Visiting Paris at the time were two...
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Valerie Harris
Mar 193 min
The First Time She Saw Paris... Laura Wheeler Waring, 1914
“Miss Laura Wheeler, a colored girl of Hartford, Conn., has been awarded a European Traveling Scholarship by the Pennsylvania Academy of...
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Valerie Harris
Nov 9, 20234 min
An Elite Upbringing
"I remember being taken to the art galleries in Hartford many times...I cannot remember a time I did not have a great thrill with my...
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Valerie Harris
Nov 6, 20235 min
Grandfather's Legacy
"Yours truly, for truth and right." A.N. FREEMAN If you’ve studied the history of free blacks in the 19th century north, you may have...
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Valerie Harris
Nov 4, 20234 min
Laura Wheeler Waring and Me
Part 2. An Elite Upbringing... Born into the black social elite Waring spent most of her adult life relatively secure, employed as an...
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Valerie Harris
Nov 2, 20233 min
Laura Wheeler Waring and Me
Part 1. I was looking for my next project and she chose me.... I had just finished “A Highway Runs Through It…” a film that documents the...
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