Elizabeth “Lizzie” Breckenridge  gazed into the heavens at night in Bloomington a century and a half ago. She scanned the vastness of space and contemplated an infinity of possibilities after completing her daily work as the paid domestic servant and nanny for the Wylie family. (Theophilus Wylie was a professor at Indiana University and a minister.) Abegunde, the first person ever to receive a doctorate in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, worked with the Wylie House Museum, Dr. Raymond Wise of the Jacobs School of Music, and the African American Arts Institute to create a digital exhibit exploring the life and dreams of Lizzie Breckenridge.

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