Tag: Women’s Rights

Wreath Hanging Ceremony

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, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

The brief ceremony commemorates the 116th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death and will include remarks by Anthony Museum President & CEO, Deborah L. Hughes.

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 – June 2022

Lecturer: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD

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

Jennifer Lloyd, PhD

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 – May 2022

Lecturer:  Meredith Roman, PhD – The State College at Brockport

Too Black, Too Strong: Angela Davis’s Revolutionary  “Freedom Dreams” and U.S. State Violence 

Meredith Roman

Angela Davis is a revolutionary feminist who has exposed America’s white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist order for over five decades. Dr. Meredith Roman shares how U.S. leaders mobilized to neutralize Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, serving as a reminder that in the age of “Black Lives Matter,” American anti-Blackness and anti-radicalism is nothing new.

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 – March 2022

Lecturer: Deborah L. Hughes, President and CEO, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House 

The Changing Faces of Susan B. Anthony

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

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

Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, PhD

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

Karen Lankeshofer

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

Marguerite Kearns

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.

Monday Lecture Series – October 2021

Lecturer: Shenette Garrette-Scott, PhD

“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.

Editor Anthony

Wreath Hanging Ceremony

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 March 13, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

The brief ceremony commemorates the 118th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death and will include remarks by Anthony Museum President & CEO, Deborah L. Hughes.

In every election year, we are reminded that Susan B. Anthony is as relevant as she’s ever been, even 118 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.

Susan B. Anthony Birthday Gala 2021

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.