National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

Museum Closed
2021-07-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Anthony Museum and Administrative Offices are closed today in observance of Independence Day.

Monday Lecture Series – June 2021
2021-06-07 13:00 - 14:30
Why the ERA went MIA
Lecturer: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD
The Equal Rights Amendment, written by Alice Paul and supported by the National Women’s Party, was first proposed in Congress in 1923 but did not pass both houses until 1972. By 1982 thirty states had ratified it, one short of the required number. Why did it take nearly fifty years to pass Congress and why wasn’t ratified? What would it mean for women if ratification was successful?
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Memorial Day – Museum Offices Closed
2021-05-31
The Anthony Museum and Administrative Offices are closed today to observe the Memorial Day Holiday.

Private On-site Bus Tour
2021-05-13 15:00 - 16:00 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
This is a closed, private event. If you are interested in arranging a private group tour for your school group, organization, or family, contact 585.235.6124 x 1 or email programs@susanb.org

United Way Day of Caring
2021-05-13 09:00 - 13:00
A group of volunteers who have registered in advance through United Way will be on site doing work around the property. For more information of Day of Caring 2021 please click here. For available tour times to visit the Anthony Museum please click here.

Monday Lecture Series – May 2021
2021-05-10 13:00 - 14:30
Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Ken Marshall, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

May MLS
2021-05-10 13:00 - 14:00
Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Ken Marshall, PhD

National Nursing Week
2021-05-06 - 2021-05-12
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. It features a host of events across the U.S. to honor nurses for the work they do, and educates the public about the role of nurses in health care.

The Anthony Museum is proud of our connection to the nursing profession. Susan B. Anthony advocated for the standardization of nursing education and licensure by championing the passage of the Nurse Practice Act in 1903. Read more here.

Private – 8th Grade House Tour
2021-04-29 09:30 - 10:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States

Monday Lecture Series – April 2021
2021-04-12 13:00 - 14:30
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black “Mammies”: A 1923 Fight Shows Confederate Monuments Are About Power, Not Southern Heritage
Lecturer: Alison Parker, PhD
Alison Parker is History Department Chair & Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests in women’s and gender history, African American history, and legal history. Dr. Parker is going to share a slice of history about white women’s racist memorialization to the “Black Mammy. Her insights were published in a New York Time’s editorial in February 2020.
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture. Please let us know if you have not received an email by April 9th at 5pm.

“Provocative Mothers” with Suzanne Schnittman
2021-03-23 14:00 - 15:00
Suzanne Schnittman’s book, Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters, presents the engaging lives of four pioneers in the women’s rights and abolitionist movements and their four daughters. Each helped procure woman suffrage in her own way, demonstrating the richness of family influences in building activism and character. Suzanne will share some of their most enticing stories.
Suzanne Schnittman earned her PhD in American History at the University of Rochester. After teaching for many years at a number of colleges in New York, she retired to pursue her passion: women’s history. She currently works as an independent scholar, which affords her the time to research women like those she explores in her latest book. She lives in Rochester, where she participates in many endeavors that promote the area’s academic, women’s and children’s concerns.
This is an on-line lecture, presented via Zoom link. .
Further information, including the Zoom link will be sent out the Friday before the March 23 talk.

Click here to register.

Wreath Hanging Ceremony
2021-03-13 11:00 - 11:30 | National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Commemorates
Susan B. Anthony’s Death and Legacy

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 Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.
The brief ceremony commemorates the 115th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death and will include remarks by Anthony Museum President & CEO, Deborah L. Hughes.
Events of this past year have shown us that Susan B. Anthony is as relevant as ever, even 115 years after her death. Come join us as we celebrate the life and accomplishments of this remarkable woman who called Rochester her home.
This event is free and open to the public.

Monday Lecture Series – March 2021
2021-03-08 13:00 - 14:30
Suffragists: Public Relations Pioneers
Lecturer: Arien Rozelle
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Susan B. Anthony Birthday Gala 2021
2021-02-10 19:00 - 19:30
In a break with tradition, the Anthony Museum has made plans to safely share Susan B. Anthony’s birthday celebration with their biggest audience ever through a televised broadcast. The “Gala” will be a 1/2 hour program on WROC-TV at 7pm on Wednesday, February 10, and will also be streamed on the internet. An inspiring program is planned that will be memorable and entertaining. As in other years, it will also serve as the major fundraising event for the Anthony Museum. Click here to give now.
The keynote speaker will be Susan Zirinsky, acclaimed journalist and groundbreaking producer, now president and senior executive producer of CBS News. Her nickname in the newsroom is “Z.” Like Anthony, she is described as “legendary” and “trailblazing.”
Zirinsky recently received the National Press Club’s highest honor, the Fourth Estate Award. “Susan Zirinsky is the personification of journalistic perseverance, tenacity, and integrity,” Club President Michael Freedman said. “Like the best of those before her at the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, Susan leads by example, displaying the courage of her convictions and making a positive difference—at CBS News and throughout the profession. She is a role model not only for women but for everyone who is dedicated to journalistic ethics and excellence. We are proud to honor her achievements—and that’s the way it is.”
The theme of the 2021 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Gala is A 2 Z, saluting the intersection between Susan B. Anthony as a public relations maven, author, and newspaper editor, and Susan Zirinsky, broadcast media icon.
In her biography of Anthony, broadcast journalist and author Lynn Sherr noted: “Acutely aware of the power of the printed word, [Susan B. Anthony] was a one-woman press phenomenon, utilizing every aspect of the media that existed—daily newspapers, monthly magazines, women’s journals—to promote The Cause with impressive skill.”*
These two women understand the power and influence of the press. They never let a glass ceiling limit their work, their ascendance, or their impact as they open the world for others.
Questions related to the 2021 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Gala may be directed to pr@susanb.org.
For sponsorship opportunities both before and during the broadcast event, please call 585.249.7490, x 712.
*Lynn Sherr, Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words, © 1995, Random House.

Monday Lecture Series – February 2021
2021-02-08 13:00 - 14:30
The Role of Imagery in Social Movements
Lecturer: Tamar W. Carroll, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Monday Lecture Series – January 2021
2021-01-11 13:00 - 13:30
Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Miroslava Chavez- Garcia, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Museum Closed – New Year's Day
2021-01-01
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices are closed today for the New Year’s holiday. The Museum will open at its regular time of Saturday, January 2.

Museum Closed – Christmas Holiday
2020-12-26
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices are closed today for the Christmas Holiday. The Museum will open at its usual time on Sunday, December 27.

Museum Closed – Christmas Holiday
2020-12-25, 2020-12-24
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices are closed today for the Christmas Holiday

Monday Lecture Series – December 2020
2020-12-14 13:00 - 14:30
Relationships, Rights, and Reforms: Sophonisba Breckinridge, Same-Sex Relationships, and Social Justice
Lecturer: Anya Jabour, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

Museum Closed – Thanksgiving Holiday
2020-11-27
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices will be closed.

Museum Closed – Thanksgiving Holiday
2020-11-26
The Anthony Museum and its Administrative Offices are closed today for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Museum will be open November 27 at its usual time.

Monday Lecture Series – November 2020
2020-11-16 13:00 - 14:30
Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery
Lecturer: Katie Terezakis, PhD
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

For The Future
2020-11-08 14:00 - 15:00
FOR THE FUTURE: THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY HISTORIC DISTRICT (MUSIC, ART AND ACTION)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2020
2:00 PM 3:00 PM

fivebyfive will be starting our season focused on the Rochester community, teaming up with ROCmusic Collaborative, the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood, and the Landmark Society for a collaborative virtual program, For the Future: The Susan B. Anthony Historic District (Music, Art, and Action) Sunday November 8th at 2pm.
This event will feature the world premiere of music composed for the event by Mina Esary in collaboration with the ROCmusic students, performed by fivebyfive and the students. This new work will be the catalyst for a community talk-back about the complicated dimensions of the suffrage movement: the history of the movement, who was included, who was excluded, and what work is still needed.
Community talk-back panelists include:
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen – Associate Professor of History at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester
Deborah Hughes – President and CEO of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House
Cona Marshall – Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and African and African American Studies at the University of Rochester
Kathryn Murano Santos – Senior Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Rochester Museum and Science Center

The event will be virtual and will feature three parts:
1) A video premiere of a new work by composer Mina Esary which will feature students from the ROCMusic Collaborative with fivebyfive
2) A community talkback
3) An optional socially distanced neighborhood walk in the Susan B. Anthony district

For more information and to register, click here.
Registration is required

Election Day 2020
2020-11-03

Monday Lecture Series – October 2020
2020-10-19 13:00 - 14:30
Women in the Nixon Administration: Defining Simple Justice
Lecturer: Yi Shun Lai, MFA
In 1969, during President Richard Nixon’s second press conference as president, journalist Vera Glazer asked if he was planning on doing better than appointing thee women per 200 high-level Cabinet and policy-making appointments he’d made thus far in his administration.

This question, set against the backdrop of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique and the formation of the National Organization for Women, would give rise to a task force that would eventually more than triple the number of women hired into significant positions in Nixon’s administration, and give rise to the first female FBI agents and generals.

Yi Shun Lai wrote the Nixon Foundation and Presidential Library’s most recent permanent exhibit about the task force leading to these results, which was colloquially referred to as “A Matter of Simple Justice.” In this talk, she’ll share what she learned over her deep dive into the project. Attendees will learn about the “Women’s Program,” and get a rare view of what it’s like to put together a museum exhibit.

This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Space is limited—make your reservations today online here or call 585.279.7490.
Individual lectures are $25 each. NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.

POSTPONED Votercade 2020 at Geneva, NY
2020-10-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Finger Lakes Welcome Center, 35 Lake Front Drive, Geneva, NY, 14456, United States
This event has been postponed until 2021, new date to be announced.

Monday Lecture Series – September 2020
2020-09-21 13:00 - 14:30
Cartooning for Suffrage!: Nina Evans Allender
Lecturer: Ronnie Frishman
For more information on Ronnie Frishman and her latest project, click here for a PDF.
This lecture will be presented online, offered to registered guests at 1pm ET.
Registration is closed.
Individual lectures are $25 each.

Suffragist City Parade
2020-09-20 18:00 - 19:00
Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020Virtual March! The Parade will go on!!

6:00 PM EDT – BROADCAST
Click here for the link to the Broadcast page.

More information here
