Rochester NOW Women's History Month Program
Monday, March 15, 2010
7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Rd
Free and open to the public
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, will present "Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her Into History."
Gage worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in organizing the women’s movement in 19th century America. Dr. Wagner is a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of woman’s rights history.
In 1871, Gage was one of the first of the hundreds of women who tried to vote, breaking the law under a civil disobedience strategy she devised for the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, Gage supported native sovereignty and treaty rights. She offered her home as a station on the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist who continued to work for full rights for African Americans after slavery was abolished.
Monday, March 15, 2010
7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Rd
Free and open to the public
Gage worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in organizing the women’s movement in 19th century America. Dr. Wagner is a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of woman’s rights history.
In 1871, Gage was one of the first of the hundreds of women who tried to vote, breaking the law under a civil disobedience strategy she devised for the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, Gage supported native sovereignty and treaty rights. She offered her home as a station on the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist who continued to work for full rights for African Americans after slavery was abolished.
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