Online – Official Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

Monday Lecture Series – May 2023

May 8, 2023: Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University – Topic: Dressed for Freedom: The Politics of Fashion in American History

Title: Dressed for Freedom: The Politics of Fashion in American History

Description: What is the connection between fashion and women’s rights? How pockets, skirts, and bras became a political statement? How does fashion function in our political system? This talk will examine how fashion became a tool to express and challenge gender, race, and class identities and how women used it to advance their political agendas – from the suffragists to today’s politicians. Celebrating the publication of the recent book: Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, the talk will reveal the importance of clothing and appearance in struggles for freedom and equality and why clothes matter.

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox teaches U.S and women’s and gender history at Case Western Reserve University. Her research examines the connections between fashion, politics, and modernity, and the cultural aspects of social movements. Her recent book, Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism explores women’s political uses of clothing and appearance to promote feminist agendas during the long 20th century. Her writing has been published in academic journals and books including the Journal of Women’s History, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, American Journalism: Journal of Media History, as well as The Washington Post, The Conversation, Public Seminar, and History News Network. You can follow her on twitter @DrEinavRFox

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Individual virtual lecture is available for $30 each with a limited number of viewers.

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Monday Lecture Series – June 2022

Lecturer: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD

Susan B. Anthony II: Activist, Journalist, Writer, U of R Graduate

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.

Monday Lecture Series – January 2022

Lecturer: Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, PhD, The State College at Brockport

Teacher, Activist, Radical: The Life and Legacy of Jovita Idar

Born in Laredo, TX to a political family, Jovita organized La Liga Feminil in 1911 to push for women’s rights. Idar was an advocate for women’s suffrage and a champion of children and the poor. During the Mexican Revolution she traveled throughout Mexico with Carranza forces and formed La Cruz Blanca (the White Cross) to nurse the wounded. Join Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik for an engaging discussion of this overshadowed feminist icon.

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.

Monday Lecture Series – December 2021

Lecturer: Karen Lankeshofer, cycling enthusiast.

Elsa Von Blumen: Woman Racer of 1880

A premier female athlete before a “woman professional athlete” was thought possible, Elsa Von Blumen, was a prominent figure on the bicycle-racing scene in the 1880s. All but forgotten today, Von Blumen grew up in Rochester, NY, and was soon enticed to try high-wheel bicycle riding. Join us to hear Karen Lankeshofer talk about this unrecognized hometown pioneer.

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.

Monday Lecture Series – November 2021

Lecturer: Marguerite Kearns, author and activist

An Unfinished Business: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

Edna Buckman Kearns is best known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon, called the “Spirit of 1776,” that was used in New York City and Long Island suffrage parades, pageants, and special organizing events. Marguerite (Culp) Kearns—a writer and historian—grew up listening to her grandfather Wilmer Kearns’ stories about her late suffrage activist grandmother Edna Kearns—back when women couldn’t vote and equality seemed like an impossible dream.

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.

December 3, 2020September 14, 2021 Victoria Brzustowicz

The Anthony Museum Announces a Completely Reimagined Susan B. Anthony Birthday Gala for 2021

A Bigger Celebration Reaching a Wider Audience!

Rochester, NY – How do you reimagine one of Rochester’s longest running birthday parties? This year, the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House realized the traditional model for the annual Susan B. Anthony Birthday celebration (1,200 supporters and friends joining together for a program and meal) wasn’t going to be possible or safe, given the pandemic.

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.

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.

September 11, 2020September 16, 2020 Victoria Brzustowicz

The Suffragist City Parade Marches ON

View this virtual march celebrating hope, courage, and change!

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House will host its 4th annual Suffragist City Parade on September 20th, 2020. We are marching with HOPE for the future, celebrating those with COURAGE from the past, and inspiring CHANGE for justice for all today.

The 2020 Suffragist City Parade is a virtual event, broadcast online on September 20, at 6:00 PM EDT. View the Parade here. (The Anthony Museum will schedule encore presentations, at times to be determined.)

Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass were champions for voting rights and human rights, and they both lived in Rochester, NY, for many years. It is in honor of these two leaders that Rochester claims to be “Suffragist City.” During this historic year, we know there’s been a lot of progress since Anthony and Douglass started agitating for justice. That’s what gives us hope.

The doors to many occupations have opened, so the parade will showcase the people in careers and fields that were not available to most women (and some men) until recently. We want the march to celebrate our achievements and to say thank you to those who courageously stood up on our behalf.

We also know that we’ve still got work to do. We want our parade to be a visible reflection of the people who make up our communities, the changemakers helping us move closer to that vision of being “of the people, by the people, for ALL the people.”

We invited people to participate in the Suffragist City Parade by submitting a video or still image; the response has been overwhelming, with submissions from across the United States.

Please join us Sunday at 6:00 pm, and view the many groups who will march virtually with their messages of Hope, Courage, and Change!

19th Amendment Musical Celebration

Tune in to Facebook and YouTube next Wednesday at 6:30 PM for a special performance in honor of the 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment LIVE at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House! Featuring Principal Second Violin Rob Simonds, Assistant Principal Second Violin Daryl Perlo (The James E. Dumm Chair, funded in perpetuity), Willa Finck (violin), Olita Povero (viola), Ingrid Bock (cello), Hayley Grainger (flute), Kamalia Freyling (clarinet), and Karl Vilcins (bassoon).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, there will be no live audience at this performance.

Monday Lecture Series – February 2021

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

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.