Greater New York City Chamber of Commerce Honors Deborah L. Hughes and the Anthony Museum

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 Editor Anthony

Each year, the Greater New York City Chamber of Commerce celebrates Women’s History Month with an awards reception recognizing influential women—including past honorees NYS Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. With this year’s theme “Celebrating Equality, Fairness, Respect & 100 Years of Voting Rights!,” we are pleased to announce that Deborah Hughes, president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, will be honored at the Chamber’s reception on March 22nd, along with honorees Jennifer Gold of the The Carlyle Group NY Center for Cybersecurity & Resilience; Sandra Wilkin of the Bradford Construction & Women’s Builders Council; and Dina Bakst & Sherry Leiwant, co-founders of A Better Balance.

The Women’s History Awards Reception will take place Thursday, March 22, 2018, from 6:00pm – 8:00 pm, at the General Society Library, 20 W. 44th Street, New York City.

Here is a link to the Greater New York City Chamber of Commerce event.

Women Voted in New York Before Columbus

March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 Editor Anthony

League of Women Voters Rochester Metropolitan Area Presents

Women Voted in New York Before Columbus

Monday, March 19, 2018, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Linehan Chapel, Golisano Academic Center

A talk by Dr. Sally RoeschWagner, Professor, Syracuse University; Director of Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue

When women in New York State began to organize for their rights in 1848, they took their cue from the nearby Haudenosaunee communities, where women lived in the world that non-native women dreamed.

The program will be followed by a book signing and a reception with light refreshments provided by our host, Nazareth College.

Hosted by Nazareth College in recognition of the Helen Guthrie Memorial Lecture

This event, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program.

Cosponsored by:

The American Association of University Women

The Friends of Ganondagan

The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Rochester Section

National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

The Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester

Advance registration is required.

For more information and registration visit https://tinyurl.com/women-voted or call 585.262.3730.

Wreath Ceremony Commemorates Susan B. Anthony’s Death and Legacy

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Editor Anthony

National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Commemorates Susan B. Anthony’s Death and Legacy

Rochester, NY – The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House will host a ceremonial wreath hanging on the front steps of 17 Madison Street, the National Historic Landmark that was Susan B. Anthony’s home and headquarters, on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.

The brief ceremony commemorates the 112^th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death and will include remarks by Anthony Museum President & CEO, Deborah L. Hughes.

This event is free and open to the public.

Rennes France to Honor Susan B. Anthony

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 Editor Anthony

Rennes, France to Honor Susan B. Anthony

Delegation to represent Rochester and the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018, Rochester, NY’s sister city, Rennes, France will dedicate a square to honor Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony was one of the founders of the International Council of Women, and was most interested in ensuring rights for women around the world.

On Saturday March 3, a delegation of 30 participants associated with the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House and the International Sister Cities of Rochester will gather at 17 Madison Street, the site of the Anthony Museum in Rochester, NY, to board a bus for Toronto. From there the group will fly to France to participate in the Rennes dedication.

In addition, on March 7, the Anthony Museum executive director & CEO Deborah L. Hughes will give a presentation on Susan B. Anthony and her quest for justice. You can read more about her presentation here.

The Anthony Museum will be sharing posts on Facebook & Twitter throughout the trip using the hashtag #SusanB-Rennes.

2018 also marks the 60th anniversary of the Rennes-Rochester Sister Cities program.

March 2 Anthony Museum Closed

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018 Editor Anthony

Winter Weather Conditions — the Anthony Museum
will be closed Friday, March 2, 2018!

The Museum will reopen on Saturday, March 3 at 11:00 am.

2018 Birthday Luncheon Recap

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Editor Anthony

2018 Annual Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon

December 4, 2017February 15, 2018 Editor Anthony

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

presents the

Annual Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Noon to 1:30 pm

Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center

123 East Main Street • Rochester, New York

A New York World reporter once observed that Susan B. Anthony “kept the fun barometer way up! At the Annual Birthday Luncheon on February 14, 2018, there will be much to celebrate. This February 14th is bicentennial of the date that Frederick Douglass chose as his birthday and is a day before Susan B. Anthony’s 198th birthday on the 15th.

Along with celebrating the birthdays of these two human rights activists and friends, the Birthday Luncheon celebrates their accomplishments, reminds us of their unfinished work—and challenges us to “take the wheel.”

The keynote speaker for the 2018 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon will be Elaine Weiss, journalist and author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, a narrative account of the dramatic climax of the woman’s suffrage movement, which will be published by Viking in March 2018.

“2018 is a bridge year between New York’s suffrage centennial in 2017 and the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020,” says Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. “There is no better time to bring this scholar whose writings explore the road to women’s suffrage to our Rochester audience.”

Weiss’ first book, Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army in the Great War was excerpted in Smithsonian Magazine online, and featured on C-Span and public radio stations nationwide. Weiss has also given presentations at the Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Hull House, the Chautauqua Institution, and many other major libraries, historical societies, and universities.

Reservations are now closed for the 2018 Luncheon, and we look forward to seeing you on February 14th!

Monday Lecture Series 2017-18

August 16, 2017June 20, 2018 Editor Anthony

2017-2018

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House proudly presents the 15th season of its popular Monday Lecture Series. This season’s innovative line-up features six guest speakers covering a range of topics inspired by the life, work, and legacy of Susan B. Anthony.

September 18, 2017 A Monument to Woman—The Woman Suffrage Statue. Sandra Weber, author and historian

November 13, 2017 Unknown Frederick Douglass: The Life & Times of New Washington City. John H. Muller, DC Public Library, author, historian

December 4, 2017 Woman Suffrage & the New York Constitutional Conventions of 1846 & 1867-68.  Dr. Jenny Lloyd, History Professor Emerita, The College at Brockport

Women’s History Month special Tea – March 5, 2018 Margaret Fuller, the “Marriage Question,” & the Culture of Reform. T. Gregory Garvey, Professor of English, College at Brockport. This presentation is SOLD OUT.

May 7, 2018 Funding Feminism: Following the Money in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Dr. Joan Marie Johnson, historian

June 18, 2018 Spiritualists, Suffragists, & Other Nasty Women of the Mid-19th Century. Dr. Amy Lehman, Associate Professor, Theater and Dance, University of South Carolina This presentation is SOLD OUT.

Each presentation is offered in our Carriage House as a noon luncheon ($30 individual reservation) or 2 pm informal tea ($15 individual reservation), except for our Women’s History Month presentation on March 5, 2018, which will only be offered as a lecture and tea ($25).

Historic Speeches

July 13, 2017January 16, 2018 Editor Anthony

Behind every stride towards Civil Rights, throughout was an individual who swayed opinions, demanded equality, and inspired. Most often, they did this through a series of speeches. The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House has collected several historical speeches from suffragists and abolitionists for performance at VoteTilla, now available to read in full.

Susan B. Anthony’s Return to the “Old Union” speech; 1863

Susan B. Anthony’s “Is it a Crime to Vote?”; 1872-1873

Susan B. Anthony’s “Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot”; 1880-1890

Susan B. Anthony’s “Social Purity”; 1895

Clara Barton from The Life of Clara Barton, by Percy Harold; 1898

Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s speech at the Tenth National Women’s Rights Convention at Cooper Institute; 1860

Excerpts from Amelia Bloomer’s “Most Terribly Bereft”; 1855 (given in Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Amelia Bloomer’s “Woman’s Right to the Ballot”; 1895

Carrie Chapman Catt’s “The Crisis”; 1916 (Atlantic City, New Jersey)

Carrie Chapman Catt’s Address to the United States Congress; November, 1917 (given in Washington, D.C.)

Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”; July 5, 1852 (given in Rochester, New York)

Frederick Douglass’ “Woman Suffrage Movement,” printed in New National Era; 1870