Tag: Susan B. Anthony

National Susan B Anthony Museum & House Celebrates Social Reformers

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sar_imageSusan B Anthony was a champion for human rights for all, but she lived in a time when racism was rampant. Visit her National Historic Landmark home and take a tour to learn about her work to end slavery, as well as her friendships with Frederick Douglass and Ida B Wells Barnett.

Let us know you’re taking a “Stand Against Racism” on Friday, April 25, and receive a free admission with the purchase of one at equal or greater value.

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm. Regular Price: adult admission $10; $8 seniors; $5 students and ages 12 and younger.

Friends of the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Announce Spring Luncheon Speaker

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Jim Memmott will speak at the Friends' Spring Luncheon on May 2, 2014.
Jim Memmott will speak at the Friends’ Spring Luncheon on May 2, 2014.

Jim Memmott, a retired reporter and editor, writes the weekly “Remarkable Rochester” column for the Democrat and Chronicle, focusing on the connections between Rochester’s past and present and on the people who have made significant contributions to the area.

A native of Little Valley, N.Y., and a graduate of Hamilton College and the University of Minnesota, Memmott, 72, taught English for nine years at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., before joining the Times-Union in Rochester in 1980 as a reporter. He went on to be a general assignment reporter, executive city editor and managing editor at the Times-Union and later managing editor and senior editor at the Democrat before retiring in 2007.
 
He teaches journalism at the University of Rochester and lives in Geneseo with his wife, Cindy.
 
Memmott will speak on “Giving Them Their Due: Finding Rochester’s Other Great Women”. The luncheon is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2014 at 11:30am.
 
To reserve your seat for this event, please visit our website.

 

2014 Susan B. Anthony Annual Birthday Luncheon

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National Susan B Anthony Museum & House announces annual birthday luncheon speaker!

Rochester, NY—The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House proudly announces that its keynote speaker for the Annual Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon, to be held Wednesday, February 12, 2014, is Louise W. Knight, author, lecturer, and historian.

In making the announcement, Anthony House president and CEO Deborah L. Hughes shared that the theme of the 2014 luncheon is “Up and Doing.” It’s a subject Louise Knight knows very well, as she is the author of two biographies on Jane Addams, one of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century activists in moving public perception and attitudes. Prominent in the battle for woman suffrage and a friend of Susan B. Anthony, Addams is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Hull House, the nation’s first settlement house. Knight will focus on Addams’s and Anthony’s ideas about democracy and how each of them put those ideas into action— “up and doing”—for the causes they held dear.

In addition to her Addams biographies, Louise Knight’s writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Women’s Media Center website. She is currently working on a book about Angelina and Sarah Grimke, two abolitionists and women’s rights advocates of the 1830s.

The Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon is held each year in mid-February to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s February 15th birthday, to honor contemporary women who continue her legacy, and to raise awareness of the education and inspiration programs that take place at and through the National Historic Landmark on Madison Street. The luncheon takes place at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

A Fifth-Grade Feminist

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Keeping Susan B. Anthony’s vision alive and relevant is our passion at the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. But how do we measure our impact in the world? Here’s what a fifth-grade teacher shared with our program director, Annie Callanan, after his class experienced our “Change It!” program yesterday:

“Thank you again!! My class had a wonderful time and got so much out of the program.

“On our way back one of my students confronted a group of construction workers and told them she didn’t like their ‘Men Working’ sign. She told them it should say ‘People Working’. One gentleman pointed out that there were only men on the crew. My lovely [student] responded with, “ Well I have another issue, why are there no women on your crew? Shoot, I can do this work.” A group of grown men dumbfounded by the brass of my beautiful young student. Thank you for inspiring them!! It was awesome!!”

I imagine Susan B. Anthony would approve!

Thank you, teacher Dale Spafford, for getting your students to the Anthony House for a field trip. Thank you, fifth graders! We are impressed that you applied for a scholarship to cover your admission and that you all walked here!  Thank you, Joanne French and Bonnie Anne Briggs, our two volunteer docents who led the program (we have 110 inspiring volunteer docents!).  Thank you, Lois and Arn Hart, for providing the scholarship funds that covered the admission for this class.

We love that this particular class came from Clara Barton School #2. Mary Anthony, Susan’s sister, was the first female principal at School #2, where she demanded equal pay for equal work more than a century ago and got it!!  Not only was Clara Barton the founder the American Red Cross, but she was a friend of Mary and Susan B. Anthony and a SUFFRAGIST herself!

Finally, we want to say thank you to the courageous young woman from Mr. Spafford’s fifth grade class who is keeping Susan B. Anthony’s vision alive and relevant!!