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Monday Lecture Series – Frankie Merson: A Force for Change

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House proudly presents the 17th season of its popular Monday Lecture Series. October’s featured speaker is Dr. Stephanie E. Craig, Professor of Social Work, Keuka College, who will present “Frankie Merson: A Force for Change.”

This presentation is offered in the Anthony Museum Carriage House as a lecture and catered lunch at noon ($35) and as a lecture and informal tea at 2 pm (SOLD OUT).  Click here for registration.

Susan B. Anthony Bike Tour

Pedal around the city of Rochester and at each of the stops along the tour, you will learn about Susan B. Anthony’s influences, friendships, activism, and how she persuaded men to give women their rights. $25. Limit of 15 riders per tour, with first come, first served.

• This tour may be cancelled for inclement weather.
• Payment to be made the day of the tour.
• No reservations necessary.
• Tour begins promptly at 10am. Please meet at 19 Madison Street at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the tour.
• Participants need to bring their own bicycles.
• Participants must be over 18 years of age and will need to sign a waiver.

The tour starts and finishes at the 17 Madison Street, the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

For more information, contact us by email at linda.lopata@susanb.org or call 585.235.6124 ext. 1.

Here at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House we’re always looking for enthusiastic volunteers. We’d like to invite you to a Meet &Greet session, designed to orient you to the Museum, introduce you to staff, and answer questions you may have about volunteer duties here at the Anthony Museum.

Location: National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Visitor Center, 19 Madison St, Rochester NY 14608

(There is a small parking lot immediately next to the building and there should be ample space on the street.)

Please email inspire@susanb.org if you are interested in attending this event.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Volunteer Meet & Greet

Here at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House we’re always looking for enthusiastic volunteers. We’d like to invite you to a Meet &Greet session, designed to orient you to the Museum, introduce you to staff, and answer questions you may have about volunteer duties here at the Anthony Museum.

Location: National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Visitor Center, 19 Madison St, Rochester NY 14608

(There is a small parking lot immediately next to the building and there should be ample space on the street.)

Please email inspire@susanb.org if you are interested in attending this event.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Volunteer Meet & Greet

Here at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House we’re always looking for enthusiastic volunteers. We’d like to invite you to a Meet &Greet session, designed to orient you to the Museum, introduce you to staff, and answer questions you may have about volunteer duties here at the Anthony Museum.

Location: National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Visitor Center, 19 Madison St, Rochester NY 14608

(There is a small parking lot immediately next to the building and there should be ample space on the street.)

Please email inspire@susanb.org if you are interested in attending this event.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Suffragist City Parade logo

Suffragist City Parade

Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass lead the Suffragist City Parade
Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass lead the Suffragist City Parade

With the theme of 

Registration for marchers is now closed.

After the Parade the Fun Continues in Susan B. Anthony Square Park!

  • If you march in honor of a person who inspires you because of their work for “Equality for All People,” share your passion and educate others about your role model, and learn about their role models, too
  • Art Force 5 will create a Community Pop-Up Art project, with everyone invited to participate
  • Votercade 2020 looks ahead to 2020 and provides photo opps with a vintage car
  • Rochester Museum & Science Center previews the exhibit “Celebration of Local Women Who Changed the World” which opens October 2020
  • Musical performances by the Flower City Pride Band, Pride of Rochester Marching Band, and the The Harriet Tubman Singers from Auburn
  • Food trucks, ice cream, and beverages on site. Stay for lunch!

Special thanks to our Parade Sponsors including

 

Save the Date for next year: 

2020 Suffragist City Parade, Saturday, September 12, 2020

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Speaker Announced for Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon

In Need of Some Inspiration?  This is the Event–and the Speaker–to Challenge and Recharge You!
Dr. Irma McClaurin
Dr. Irma McClaurin

Rochester, NY– Celebrating Susan B. Anthony’s birthday is a tradition that began in her lifetime and continues to this day. This 199th birthday party and fundraiser for the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House will take place February 13, 2019 at the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main Street, Rochester, NY.

The keynote speaker for the 2019 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon will be Dr. Irma McClaurin, co-chair of 2018 Seneca Falls Revisited Conference & Retreat held in Rochester, past president of Shaw University, activist anthropologist, black feminist speaker and author, and diversity champion and consultant. She is alsothe founder of the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

With a focus on inclusiveness, Dr. McClaurin says, “I want to encourage and challenge people to find bonds of commonality; and motivate everyone to leave inspired and committed to acting with integrity, grace, and respect as they move through the world.”

“We are setting the stage for 2020 when we celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday, and the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Anthony Museum,” says Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. “Dr. McClaurin will challenge us to move boldly into 2020, furthering  the causes of human rights that are a cornerstone of Anthony’s legacy.”

You can read more about Irma McClaurin at her web site, irmamcclaurin.com.

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 educational and inspirational programs offered by the Museum.

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Suffragist City Parade Coming Soon

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Parade starts @ 10:30 am

Route: W. Main St. to the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House,  17 Madison St., Rochester, NY

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Stay After the Parade for the Block Party in Susan B. Anthony Park

11:00 am–2:00 pm

Organize! Agitate! Educate!

Featuring

MUSIC

Madeleine McQueen | Sarah Long Hendershot and Dan Hoh |  Connie Deming

Artists Coalition for Change Together

The Raging Grannies

Games and activities for kids

Art Force 5—students from Alfred University—will create a mosaic of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Join them to paint a tile and learn about the big picture in the process!

Meet Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and other  celebrated role models!

Food Trucks

Wraps on Wheels  •  Dillicious Eats  •  Neighborhood Catering

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It raises my blood pressure!

Today, we received a very angry phone call from a woman who read on the internet that the SBA List will be featuring the U.S. President as their keynote speaker next week. Since we are the most recognized organization bearing Susan B. Anthony’s name, she assumed that we had something to do with the SBA List’s political agenda.

As the National Historic Landmark that has championed the memory and legacy of Susan B. Anthony for three-quarters of a century, the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is incensed that the SBA List continues to assert that the icon of the woman’s suffrage movement would have anything to do with blatantly partisan politics. Susan B. Anthony was proud to claim the title “radical reformer” and she believed that the purpose of government was to create a more just society and a better world for all people.

The SBA List uses her name to further their cause, but they neither understand her life’s work nor advocate for the causes in which she believed. We call on the SBA List to either take a bold and clear stand for liberty, equality, and justice for all humanity, or stand down from using Susan B. Anthony’s name.

Deborah L. Hughes
President & CEO
National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

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June 2018 Monday Lecture Series

Spiritualists, Suffragists, & Other Nasty Women of the Mid-19th Century, a lecture by Dr. Amy Lehman, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance, University of South Carolina

When a woman spoke out or performed on a public stage or reform platform in mid-19th c. America, she was likely to be labelled a “nasty woman” – or worse. Whether as a suffragist, spiritualist, abolitionist or actress, if she were seen to abandon her sacred domestic role as the “Angel in the House” a woman might expect fierce public scrutiny and often scathing criticism. This talk will discuss the struggles and strategies of celebrated women activists and reformers like Susan B. Anthony, who despite relentless opposition, nonetheless persisted in making their voices heard.

The noon Lecture & Luncheon is SOLD OUT.
The 2pm Lecture & Tea is SOLD OUT.