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Frances Jane Scroggins Brown

1819–1914

United States

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Frances Jane Scroggins Brown (15 April 1819 – 16 April 1914) was an African American Underground Railroad station operator. Brown's daughter, Hallie Quinn Brown, co-founded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).

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