About this Event
As part of our exhibition Documenting Democracy: The Austen Home and Community, the renowned Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner will deliver a virtual lecture exploring the women’s suffrage movement from Alice Austen’s birth in 1866 through the end of the 19th century.
When Alice Austen was born in 1866, the second wave of the women’s suffrage movement was emerging in the aftermath of the Civil War. During this period, suffragists organized bold campaigns, including tax protests, the presentation of a Declaration of Rights of Women at the nation’s centennial celebration (illegally, in 1876), and symbolic “impeachments” of the government for denying women their political rights. They also protested the Statue of Liberty, condemning it as a glaring hypocrisy—a symbol of liberty in a nation where women had no political freedom.
About Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner:
Dr. Wagner is one of the most prominent historians of the suffrage movement. Awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento), Dr. Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 53 years, currently in Syracuse University’s Honors Program. She is the Founding Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.
Dr. Wagner has appeared on CNN, several PBS documentaries and BBC, among others. Quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Nation and Time Magazine, her articles have appeared in Ms. Magazine, U.S.A. Today and Northeast Indian Quarterly. Her books include The Women’s Suffrage Movement (Penguin Classics); Sisters in Spirit: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Woman’s Rights (Native Voices Press) and We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influence by Native American Women, (7th Generation)
Among her awards, Dr. Wagner was selected as a 2020 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction, one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s E-News in 2015 and she received the Katherine Coffey Award for outstanding service to museology from the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums in 2012. She served as a New York Times’ Women’s Suffrage Centennial consultant, and currently sits on the advisory councils of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument and the National Women’s History Museum.
www.sallyroeschwagner.com
Event Venue
Online
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