New to the Monday Lecture Series Schedule! Note change of Date & Lecture!
LECTURER: Rebecca Hall, JD, PHD
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Dr. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist and educator, who writes and speaks on the history of race, gender, law and resistance, as well as on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory.Her recent highly-acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, weaves history and memoir that focuses on slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in New York City and her own quest to uncover this unwritten history.
Wake went viral when it started as a Kickstarter campaign, earning coverage in Hyperallergic and Bustle. Dr. Hall has spoken about her work and Wake to eager audiences at the National Antiracism Teach In, the Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival and at Black Gotham’s “Nerdy Thursdays” at the New York Historical Society. Wake was selected as Steph Curry’s June Literati Book Club Pick. An Indie Bestseller, Wake has also received glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian, calling the graphic novel “stunning,” “powerful,” and “a must-read.”
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures,please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
or call 844-787-2626 (844-SUSANB6) or click here to purchase online.
NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.
Lecturer: Deborah L. Hughes, President and CEO, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
The Changing Faces of Susan B. Anthony
Deborah L. Hughes
Description of this lecture to come.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To purchase individual lectures,please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
or call 844-787-2626 (844-SUSANB6) or click here to purchase online.
NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.
“Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal”
Did you know that between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions? Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Join us to hear about the formidable Maggie Lena Walker, a Black woman who made her way from teller to boardroom, as she met the needs of middle and working class Blacks against the threats of white and male supremacy.
This lecture will be presented online, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm ET. Individual lectures are available at $30 each, with limited number of viewers.
To become a Monday Lecture Series Season Patron or to purchase individual lectures, please text monday-lecture-series-2 to 585-440-8825
or call 844-787-2626 (844-SUSANB6) or click here to purchase online.
NOTE: The link to the online lecture will be sent to registrants the Friday before the scheduled lecture.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist and educator, who writes and speaks on the history of race, gender, law and resistance, as well as on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Her recent highly-acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, weaves history and memoir that focuses on slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in New York City and her own quest to uncover this unwritten history.
Wake went viral when it started as a Kickstarter campaign, earning coverage in Hyperallergic and Bustle. Dr. Hall has spoken about her work and Wake to eager audiences at the National Antiracism Teach In, the Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival and at Black Gotham’s “Nerdy Thursdays” at the New York Historical Society. Wake was selected as Steph Curry’s June Literati Book Club Pick. An Indie Bestseller, Wake has also received glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian, calling the graphic novel “stunning,” “powerful,” and “a must-read.”
Did you know that between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions? Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Join us to hear about the formidable Maggie Lena Walker, a Black woman who made her way from teller to boardroom, as she met the needs of middle and working class Blacks against the threats of white and male supremacy.
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.
