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Send us a textHappy close to Women's History Month, listeners! Tara and EmKay continue to dive into the rich history of women's suffrage, led in part by the incredible Matilda Joslyn Gage. Ciarrai Eaton, Operations Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, joins to share her expertise on Matilda, what to expect when visiting the house, favorite Oz easter eggs, and so much more!Show notes:Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist by Angelica Shirley CarpenterMatilda Joslyn Gage CenterMargaret Hamilton From Cleveland, Ohio to the Land of Oz by Don BillieBond and GraceInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: www.emilykayshrader.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtheyellowbrickpodEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/down_the_yellow_brick_podMusic by: Shane ChapmanEdited by: Emily Kay Shrader Down the Yellow Brick Pod: A Wizard of Oz Podcast preserving the history and legacy of Oz
Send us a textHappy close to Women's History Month, listeners! Tara and EmKay dive into the rich history of women's suffrage, led in part by the incredible Matilda Joslyn Gage. Matilda worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the fight for women's equality, but was unfortunately written out of history due to her radical goal of including ALL women in the fight. On top of all that, she was the mother-in-law of one L. Frank Baum! Join as Tara and EmKay break down Angelica Shirley Carpenter's biography of Matilda, "Born Criminal," and highlight the amazing Matilda Joslyn Gage Center in Fayetteville, NY.Stay tuned for an interview with Ciarrai Eaton, Interim Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, dropping this Wednesday!Show notes:Author Talk: Born Criminal- Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical SuffragistCommemorating 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote with Sue Boland - DTYBPBook Talk: Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist Full EventBorn Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist by Angelica Shirley CarpenterVera Bradley Wicked Collection@JoliCreates Instagram@JoliCreates Tik TokInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: www.emilykayshrader.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtheyellowbrickpodEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/down_the_yellow_brick_podMusic by: Shane ChapmanEdited by: Emily Kay Shrader Down the Yellow Brick Pod: A Wizard of Oz Podcast preserving the history and legacy of Oz
Matilda Joslyn Gage was the single most important and influential champion of women's rights and the Suffragette Movement, so why have you never heard of her? Well, if you've ever seen Wicked or The Wizard of Oz, it turns out you have! Join us this week as Sarah shares the incredible life story of L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law. Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/ https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Free_Thought_Magazine/uuw5AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA337&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_National_Cyclopaedia_of_American_Bio/U11DAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA244&printsec=frontcover https://web.archive.org/web/20120219230415/http://www.matildajoslyngage.org/gage-home/bringing-gage-to-life/who-was-matilda-joslyn-gage/ https://pacny.net/freedom_trail/Gage.htm https://sallyroeschwagner.com/latest-news-1/f/curious-minds-the-radical-suffragist-who-history-erased https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/matilda-joslyn-gage/ Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/fantastichpod/) , TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@fantastichistorypodcast) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeGGchirsGO1bMzKxosclpw) for extra content and updates! Email us with questions/suggestions at FantasticHistoryPod@gmail.com (mailto:FantasticHistoryPod@gmail.com) Fantastic History merch is available Here (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RainyDayCornerstore)! Music: Order by ComaStudio (http://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/) (royalty free) This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Everything is excused in the alternate universes created for the fantasy worlds, in an age of rabid autonomy. Post-Christian man is cutting himself loose from the bonds of God's law in his own imagination. This begins with Matilda Joslyn Gage and Frank Baum, and then continues with the J.K. Rowlings of the world. The same sort of thing is happening now with the Western infatuation with pagan manga and anime. This program includes: 1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus (2,500 pro-life doctors challenge Biden's pro-abortion mandate; 20 Pakistani Christians remain imprisoned for blasphemy against Mohammad; While Los Angeles burns, CA House Speaker invests $25 million to fight Trump) 2. Generations with Kevin Swanson
Everything is excused in the alternate universes created for the fantasy worlds, in an age of rabid autonomy. Post-Christian man is cutting himself loose from the bonds of God's law in his own imagination. This begins with Matilda Joslyn Gage and Frank Baum, and then continues with the J.K. Rowlings of the world. The same sort of thing is happening now with the Western infatuation with pagan manga and anime.This program includes:1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus (2,500 pro-life doctors challenge Biden's pro-abortion mandate; 20 Pakistani Christians remain imprisoned for blasphemy against Mohammad; While Los Angeles burns, CA House Speaker invests $25 million to fight Trump)2. Generations with Kevin Swanson
Welcome to episode 94, our season 4 finale! In it, we take a trip down the yellow brick road and meet the man behind the curtain--L. Frank Baum and talk about the creation of his immortal book, The Wizard of Oz. Over the years since the release of the book, many parables and metaphors have been applied to the story as well as inspirations for its characters. Together the sisters spark up, and dive into the life of author L. Frank Baum and the possible real life inspirations for the characters, including Glinda the Good Witch and his feminist suffragette mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage. ~~~~* Mentioned in the Episode: Episode 48: How Indigenous Women Inspired the Women's Rights Movement ~~~~* The Socials and Patreon! Patreon-- The Best Buds Club! Instagram - @HighTalesofHistory TikTok- @HighTalesofHistoryPod Facebook -High Tales of History or @HighTalesofHistory YouTube - High Tales of History Email—hightailingthroughhistory@gmail.com ~~~~* Source Materials-- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710826?seq=11 https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/populism-and-world-oz https://www.jstor.org/stable/44683977?mag=grand-illusions&seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frank-baum-the-man-behind-the-curtain-32476330/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-wizard-white-city/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/ ~~~~* Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Welcome to episode 94, our season 4 finale! In it, we take a trip down the yellow brick road and meet the man behind the curtain--L. Frank Baum and talk about the creation of his immortal book, The Wizard of Oz. Over the years since the release of the book, many parables and metaphors have been applied to the story as well as inspirations for its characters. Together the sisters spark up, and dive into the life of author L. Frank Baum and the possible real life inspirations for the characters, including Glinda the Good Witch and his feminist suffragette mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage. ~~~~* Mentioned in the Episode: Episode 48: How Indigenous Women Inspired the Women's Rights Movement ~~~~* The Socials and Patreon! Patreon-- The Best Buds Club! Instagram - @HighTalesofHistory TikTok- @HighTalesofHistoryPod Facebook -High Tales of History or @HighTalesofHistory YouTube - High Tales of History Email—hightailingthroughhistory@gmail.com ~~~~* Source Materials-- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710826?seq=11 https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/populism-and-world-oz https://www.jstor.org/stable/44683977?mag=grand-illusions&seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frank-baum-the-man-behind-the-curtain-32476330/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-wizard-white-city/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/ ~~~~* Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History
We're back for the 2024-2025 season! And what better way to begin than to discuss the history of a sisterhood between the Haudenosaunee women and the American suffragists. Join us as we interview Sally Roesch Wagner, noted feminist pioneer, activist and author as we discuss her book, Sisters In Spirit.The Iroquois, alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee, are a confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott had formed friendships with Haudenosaunee women that enabled them to see the real possibility of creating a very different structure for their American culture, a matriarchal one, like the one that their Haudenosaunee sisters had experienced for generations. We talk to Sally Roesch Wagner about this amazing story and how she discovered this overlooked pieced of American feminist herstory.Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.
Today's episode features: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Author and Suffragist Sponsored by 2 Complicated 4 History Produced by Primary Source Media
Welcome back to the Two Piers Podcast!In this episode, we delve into the rich tapestry of history with our guest, Maya Rook, a cultural historian and the driving force behind Illusory Time—a project making history enjoyable, accessible, and relevant.Join us as Maya unravels the fascinating narrative behind Women's History Month, exploring its evolution and the captivating stories it aims to bring to light. As an adjunct instructor at Southern New Hampshire University and the creative mind behind Firefly Studio in Bath, Maine, Maya adds a unique perspective to the academic and metaphysical dimensions of our past.Discover the journey of women's studies in academia, the intricate dance of intersectionality with other movements, and captivating stories from the annals of history. From the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy to the influential Matilda Joslyn Gage and the compelling story of Anna Douglas, Maya sheds light on figures often overshadowed by time.Together, we unravel the purpose behind dedicating an entire month to women's history and ponder the inception of Women's History Month itself. Through this discussion, Maya introduces us to lesser-known heroines, prompting us to question: "Why is it crucial to spotlight these stories? How did Women's History Month emerge, and who are the unsung heroes waiting to be heard?"Join us on a thought-provoking journey as we explore history beyond the conventional narrative, seeking to integrate the diverse and profound contributions of individual women into the broader tapestry of our shared past. Tune in for an insightful conversation that transcends the confines of a calendar month, celebrating the profound impact of women on the ever-evolving story of humanity.
Las "Matildas" de la ciencia representan a las mujeres olvidadas o ignoradas en la historia científica, cuyos logros a menudo se atribuyen a colegas masculinos. Este fenómeno recibe su nombre por Matilda Joslyn Gage, quien en el siglo XIX destacó la supresión de las contribuciones femeninas. Las Matildas enfrentan barreras de género, sesgos y la falta de reconocimiento. Rescatar sus historias es vital para una perspectiva equitativa y completa de los avances científicos. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
What's in this episode:I really do believe in a good business blunder. They're the helpful lessons we never wanted. The saving graces that we didn't ask for.But the biggest blunders in history? They're the collective mistakes we've made as a society. The ones that should never have been made.Let's talk about a few of of the entrepreneurs that we've lost along the way in making these big blunders. They're only a sample of the Lost Women, the ones we should all know by name…Folks + things mentioned in this episode:* read more about Eunice Newton Foote here* check out Matilda Joslyn Gage here* more on Dr. Elizabeth Wagner Reed lives here* read more about Maria Mitchell here* learn more about Mary Townsend here* read more about Margaret Rossiter here* read all about Lucille Ball here + Gene Roddenberry here* join The Founding Moms here* need some summer reading? Try The Best Business Book In The World* (*According to my Mom) hereOur Sensational Sponsor:* Are you tired of the daily commute? Are you looking for the flexibility of working from home...forever? Our friends at the Work from Home Forever podcast interview guests who've built successful careers, lead teams and keep their clients satisfied while working remotely. The podcast features interviews with experts in remote work, productivity, and entrepreneurship, as well as stories from people who've successfully transitioned to a work-from-home lifestyle. Whether you're just starting out or you're looking to avoid a "return to office", this podcast offers valuable tips and strategies to help you succeed. Find Work From Home Forever on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Got Q's? Jill's Got A's.* Wanna get your Q's A'd in a future episode?* Perhaps you wanna sponsor an episode?* Maybe you wanna leave a review at RateThisPodcast.com/WhyAreWeShouting so you can become the coolest person on the planet?Talk to me! Text or call (708) 872-7878 so that we can make your dreams come true.Got thoughts, comments, or questions about the episode you just heard? Leave a comment below.See you soon,jill Get full access to The Why Are We Shouting? Podcast at jillsalzman.substack.com/subscribe
Cada xoves abrimos unha fiestra para visibilizar proxectos relacionados coa igualdade. Hoxe falamos do "Efecto Matilda". "O Efecto Matilda é como se coñece a tendencia histórica de ignorar, minimizar ou atribuír inxustamente o traballo e logros das mulleres no campo da ciencia e a tecnoloxía". "Os estereotipos de xénero son unha das razóns da reducida presenza de mulleres nas áreas de STEM". EFECTO MATILDA Termino co que se coñece a tendencia histórica de ignorar, minimizar ou atribuír inxustamente o traballo e logros das mulleres no campo da ciencia e a tecnoloxía. Recibe ese nome pola activista Matilda Joslyn Gage, quen loito polos dereitos das mulleres no século XIX e cuxo traballo foi ignorado e esquecido durante moito tempo. Exemplos do efecto Matilda: ✔️1ª Rosalind Franklin, Química e Cristalógrafa inglesa, que contribúo ao descubrimento da estrutura do ADN, pero cuxo traballo foi minimizado... 2ª Ada Lovelace, Matemática inglesa, considerada a primeira Programadora da historia polo seu traballo no século XIX coa máquina analítica de Charles Babbage, pero que non recibiu recoñecemento polo seu traballo durante moitos anos. 3ª Chien-Shiung Wu, Física chinesa-estadounidense, que realizo importantes contribucións á Física Nuclear. Foi fundamental na comprobación experimental da violación da paridade nas interaccións débiles. O seu traballo tamén foi minimizado e esquecido en comparación co dos seus colegas masculinos. ✔️4ª Margaret Hamilton, Científica da computación estadounidense que liderou o equipo que desenvolveu o software para o programa Apollo da NASA, pero cuxo traballo foi a miúdo atribuído aos seus colegas masculinos. Os estereotipos de xénero son unha das razóns da reducida presenza de mulleres nas áreas de STEM e a Asemblea Xeral das Nacións Unidas co fin de reverter este efecto e lograr o acceso, a igualdade de xénero, o empoderamento e a participación plena e equitativa na ciencia para as mulleres e as nenas promove a conmemoración do Día Internacional da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia, que se celebra cada 11 de febreiro Máis Información da ASOCIACIÓN DE IGUALDADE E MULLERES DA ESTRADA: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057569194703 Máis Información de SECRETARÍA XERAL DE IGUALDADE: ✔️ Páxina Web: http://igualdade.xunta.gal/gl ✔️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empregoeigualdadegalicia ✔️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/igualdadegal ✔️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igualdadenarede/ ✔️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/igualdadexunta ️ "SUSCRÍBETE" ao podcast MÁIS ENTREVISTAS: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-salta-da-cama_sq_f1323089_1.html Máis Información e outros contidos: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PabloChichas ✔️Twitter: https://twitter.com/pablochichas ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablochichas/ ✔️Clubhouse: @pablochichas ✔️Twich: https://www.twitch.tv/pablochichas
(RE-RELEASE) How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out? Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner--founder and executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and Center for Social Justice Dialogue; a founder of one the first college-level women's studies programs in the United States; and author of The Women's Suffrage Movement and Sisters in Spirit--introduces Eve and Julie to Matilda Joslyn Gage, the should-be household name of the suffrage movement whom Gloria Steinem called “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time.” Sally has dedicated her life's work to restoring Gage to her rightful place in history. In this episode, Sally, Eve, and Julie explore how power dynamics (in politics, in social changes movements) followed a familiar playbook in the 19th century; how Indigenous women modeled an egalitarian society for 19th century feminists; why L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz was a gender-bending, revolutionary text ahead of its time, in no small part because of Matilda Gage; and how Susan B. Anthony erased Matilda Gage's name from the pages of history. (This episode was originally released on 4/1/21.) Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you to visit our website and sign up for our newsletter for information about our episodes, guests, and more. Book Dreams is a part of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Book Dreams, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows about literature, writing, and storytelling like Storybound and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 81 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is actress, author, writer, producer, and activist Mimi Kennedy.Born in Rochester, NY, Mimi first fell in love with acting as a child in community theater, which would lead her to ignite her acting career on stage opposite TV legend Sid Caesar in Neil Simon's LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS along with multi-Emmy Award winner Doris Roberts, who became a friend and mentor.Mimi was active in the NYC theatre scene in the 1970's, cast in plays like Jim Steinman's DAS RHEINGOLD and Andy Warhol's legendary PORK – a role she left due to reasons recounted in her 1996 mid-life memoir TAKEN TO THE STAGE: The Education of an Actress (soon to be released as an audiobook on Audible). Steinman would become a life-long friend and Warhol, at least in her case, would be proven wrong about his “15 minutes of fame” quote. In 1976 Mimi made her Broadway debut as one of the Pink Ladies: Jan, in the original Broadway run of the legendary musical GREASE. She was also a member of the original touring production of THE NATIONAL LAMPOON SHOW.In 1975 Mimi was invited to audition for the original cast (The Not Ready for Prime Time Players) of a brand-new late-night NBC TV sketch comedy-variety series SATURDAY NIGHT (later known as SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE), but Lorne Michaels decided on casting Jane Curtin for that spot. Her stage career did not end when Hollywood and television came calling shortly after. She has performed the 1-woman play about newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers, THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS, at both the Pasadena and Cleveland Playhouses. In 2013 she wrote and starred in a 1-woman play about suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, MIMI KENNEDY FINDS MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.For 8 seasons Mimi portrayed the much beloved character, Marjorie, on the hit Chuck Lorre CBS TV sitcom MOM. She garnered a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series before becoming a series regular in Season 2. This was the second pairing of Mimi and Lorre; she played Abby O'Neil on the hit 90's ABC TV sitcom DHARMA & GREG for 5 seasons.Her television debut was on the 1977 NBC TV musical-variety mini-series 3 GIRLS 3, also starring dance legend Debbie Allen, and Ellen Foley. The New York Times declared it a hit, however it sadly only aired 4 episodes. You can view all 4 episodes on Mimi's YouTube channel. 3 GIRLS 3 was quite an introduction to Hollywood allowing her the opportunity to play opposite Bob Hope, Carl Reiner, Flip Wilson, and Steve Martin (in his prime-time TV debut.) Regular TV sitcom series roles followed throughout the 70's and 80's, most notably as Stockard Channing's sister on the CBS TV sitcom JUST FRIENDS, and co-starring with comedy legend Peter Cook in THE TWO OF US. The 1990's started with Mimi in a dramatic role portraying a slightly darker side of the affluent WASP-type she had portrayed on sitcoms previously. As Queen-B Ruth Sloan on HOMEFRONT, she netted another American Television Critics nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. In the 2000's she recurred as CIA Director and House Minority Leader in HBO's THE BRINK and VEEP, respectively. Upcoming television guest roles in 2022 include Netflix's GRACE & FRANKIE, and the long-running ABC TV sitcom THE GOLDBERGS, as well as a new character on a popular drama series.Mimi's most notable roles on film include: Woody Allen's Oscar winning MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, IN THE LOOP, the Oscar winning ERIN BROCKOVICH, PUMP UP THE VOLUME, MAN IN THE CHAIR, THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT, SAVING PARADISE, the recent Tony Hale comedy EAT WHEATIES!, and the upcoming GOING PLACES.The experience of attending and graduating from Smith College during the Vietnam War era (with Julie Nixon as a classmate) exposed Mimi to new ideas and perspectives. The seeds of an activist and world citizen were born. Nonviolence is her core political principle, learned in weekly classes after 9/11 taught by Rev. James Lawson, whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called “the teacher” for his educating activists in nonviolent theory and practice at the start of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Mimi was the founding Advisory Board Chair of Progressive Democrats of America in 2004 and remains on its National Board in a leadership role on the Election Integrity Team. Her work in Election Integrity is nationally recognized, from Capitol Hill to LA County; where she served on the Advisory Panel for LA's new paper-ballot voting system. Her 1-woman play about 19th century suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage wove the spiritual and political activism of Gage with today's need for reproductive justice and conscious parenting. She was proud to stand with the MOM cast and producers in donating the show's 2017 Emmy budget to Planned Parenthood. Mimi and the PDA were instrumental in convincing Bernie Sanders to run in the 2016 Democratic Presidential primary; hosting Sanders' first LA fundraiser in her home. She has also worked with the Office of the Americas against the covert wars in Central America and Artists United to Win Without War.Mimi lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband of over 40 years, actor, educator, and musician Larry Dilg. They have two grown children, two grandchildren and an adorable dog. Also on Episode 81, Dfernando and Wendi are back and touch on things that occurred during their time off: Dfernando's 57th and Greg Covey's 52nd birthdays; Wendi's gift of a week's worth of Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding and pizza; Wendi's new article in NEW BEAUTY Magazine, which includes various photos from their first photo shoot together (one which includes Wendi wearing one of Bob Fosse's own bowler hats); and Wendi talks about her time in Vancouver where she filmed the new Disney Plus film PROM PACT. On THE RIPE REPORT, Dfernando talks about the new Netflix cake-baking competition show IS IT CAKE?, hosted by SNL's Mikey Day, and Wendi shares a new discovery: Uncle Tetsu Japanese Cheesecake and shares a ROTTEN: celebrities licking faces on the red carpet at awards shows. Watch Wendi and Dfernando and their TEAM GENERATION RIPE: Greg Covey, Shelley McLendon and Ponciana Badia on Season 7 Episode 2 of CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD - now on ABC OnDemand and Hulu and on the GENERATION RIPE website. Follow us on our Instagram:Wendi McLendon-CoveyDfernando ZarembaGENERATION RIPE... and our guest Mimi Kennedy, her Twitter, her TikTok, her Facebook, and her YouTube Channel. Remember to subscribe to GENERATION RIPEAnd rate & leave us a review by clicking HERE!Visit Dfernando Zaremba's website: dfernandozaremba.com
On this week's 51%, we recognize Women's History Month. We learn about Sarah Smiley, a controversial Quaker minister who dared to preach to women — and men — in the 19th Century, and Nancy Brown of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites provides a more local lens on the women's suffrage movement. We also stop by the New York State Museum to learn about a new initiative to expand its collection on women's sports. Guests: Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation; Nancy Brown, National Collaborative for Women's History Sites; Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. All month long, we've recognized Women's History Month by taking the time to learn about prominent American women, past and present. At the end of each episode, we visited exhibits at the New York State Capitol and spoke with the National Women's Hall of Fame. This week, I wanted to take a more local approach — mostly because, as a transplant in Central New York, I'm forever catching up on my Capital Region history, but also to serve as a reminder about the wealth of history that's right in our local communities. We're also flipping the script this week — rather than ending with a “woman you should know,” let's start with one. At the end of last year, the city council of Saratoga Springs, New York, unanimously voted to designate a small cottage on Excelsior Avenue a local landmark. The Smiley-Brackett Cottage, as it's called, is thought to be a prime example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 19th Century — but it's also noteworthy for those who lived there. The house was owned by and built for Sarah Smiley, a popular, yet controversial Quaker minister. "She really had this significant impact, I think, on women and public speaking," says Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The Foundation led the effort to acquire the local landmark designation. Smiley was born the daughter of a well-known Quaker family in Maine in 1830 (her father and brothers would go on to build the popular Mohonk Mountain House resort in the Catskills, which still operates today). She initially sought to become a teacher, but after the Civil War, Bosshart says Smiley went South to “relieve human suffering.” "She traveled to Virginia and to North Carolina, aiding Quakers in organizing schools and libraries," Bosshart notes. "She helped to start a school for 1,000 free Black adults and children in Richmond, Virginia — but that's not really what made her well-known. She later spoke to what they called 'mixed audiences,' and when we say 'mixed audiences,' we're talking about men and women. Women did not speak in front of a congregation, that just wasn't happening." In 1872, popular minister Theodore Cuyler invited Smiley to preach before a mixed congregation at the Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn — making her the first woman to speak from a Presbyterian pulpit. "This caused a ruckus," says Bosshart. "This made Harper's Weekly news, and she was said to 'teach and to extort, or to lead in prayer in public and promiscuous assemblies...[it's] clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles.' But what we learned, or what I learned after that, was that she was so well-received amongst her audiences that she was asked to speak across the country and abroad." Soon, Bosshart says Smiley was speaking in churches from Cincinnati, to London, to Cube. She was adamant that women could study the scriptures themselves, without the help of men. She started a home Bible study program for women, and would go on to write five books on the subject — some of which are still published today. Bosshart says Smiley's Gothic-Revival cottage was built the same year of her notorious appearance in Brooklyn. She's not sure why Smiley chose to settle in Saratoga Springs, but it appears she knew exactly what she wanted in terms of a home. "Andrew Jackson Downing, he published his Cottage Residence in 1842, and The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850. Alexander Jackson Davis designed and drew the illustrations featured — her house looks nearly identical to one of those cottages. Perhaps because it was the gothic style that is reminiscent of churches, perhaps [she was] being influenced by seeing these rural cottages, and she wanted it to be in keeping with that," Bosshart adds. "She would come to Saratoga to study. In an article in 1874 in The Saratogian, it said, 'She speaks twice almost every day in the week. She only spends six months of the year in preaching, the remainder of the year, during the summer months, in diligent study in her cottage in Saratoga.' So I think, perhaps, it was where she had peace and quiet." Following Smiley's death in 1917, the cottage was left to The Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, the group she had founded to promote religious study by mail. It was ultimately bought by another famous name who owned the property until 1968: Charles W. Brackett. Brackett was a popular author, New Yorker drama critic, and screenwriter of films including Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, and 1953's Titanic. In 1958, he received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Bosshart says the cottage ultimately fell into disrepair following Brackett's death. The building is privately owned, so she notes there's nothing the Foundation or city can explicitly do to restore it at this time, but she remains hopeful that they can work with the owner down the line. In the meantime, the Foundation is celebrating the local landmark designation, which requires a review for any demolition or new construction in the future. "I think it's important that we continue to recognize all the people that contribute to the stories of our communities. Having an opportunity to be a part of ensuring that Sarah Smiley's story is told and preserved is rewarding," says Bosshart. Saratoga Springs, as it turns out, saw many aspects of women's history. When we talk about the Women's Suffrage Movement, we tend to start with the Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 — but as our next guest will tell us, there's a lot of local history to the movement, including in Saratoga Springs. Nancy Brown is a board member of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail, a database of more than 2,000 sites significant to women's suffrage across the U.S. She says the goal was to highlight the nationwide, grassroots commitment that was needed to gain women the vote, and honor the ongoing struggle for voting rights across the U.S. How did you get involved in the National Votes for Women Trail? I think that my interest in women suffered comes from the fact that I'm a native of Johnstown, New York, and that is home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, where not only she was born, but inspired. So I think that has always made me very interested in women's suffrage. I was a board member on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and this became a project that was originally, actually, a funded project that was proposed by Hillary Clinton – to have a Votes for Women Trail. And it was passed, the legislation was passed, but there were never any funds appropriated for it. So I remember being on a phone call, years ago now, and we were bemoaning the fact that there was no money to tell the story of women's suffrage – how half of our democracy became enfranchised, which is a pretty huge story. And we got thinking that really, suffragists we're all volunteer operations. So that's how the National Votes for Women Trail got started: a number of volunteers stepped up and we ended up creating a national network. And our goal was to have 2,020 sites on a database, a mobile friendly, searchable database by 2020 – which we exceeded, and we're now at 2,300 sites, it at nvwt.org. And along the way, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation in Syracuse, New York, recognized the importance of the project and offered to fund historic markers for places of specific significance around the country. And they are doing that for over 200 markers. So it was through that project that I kind of stumbled across the wonderful suffrage history in Saratoga. So what role did Saratoga play in the women's suffrage movement? Well, I will tell you how I stumbled across it, to be honest with you. One of the most important and influential associations was the New York State Women's Suffrage Association. And when I was doing a little research on where it started, I realized that it started at a meeting in Saratoga in July of 1869. Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was famous suffragist from Syracuse, actually had called a meeting to form a state women's suffrage association, and it was held at Congress Hall, which is where the corner of Congress Park and Spring Street is in Saratoga. And it was chaired by Susan B. Anthony. And the result of it was the formation of the New York Women's Suffrage Association. Why that's so important is this will become the association that helps women win the right to vote in New York state, which happened in 1917. They lost the bid for voting in 1915, but were able to get it in 1917. And why that's so important is we were the 12th state in the nation to pass women's suffrage – but the other states were in the West, and we were the first state in the east to pass this. And Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous suffragist, called this the Gettysburg of the woman's suffrage association. So come to find out that started right in Saratoga. And when I looked back a little further, I found that that was not the first women's rights convention in Saratoga. Well, we know that the very first one was in Seneca Falls in 1848, that sort of began the idea of having women's rights conventions. And after that there was one in Rochester, but in 1854, actually – the suffragists were such strategic thinkers that there were some other associations meeting in Saratoga, and they decided to go to Nikolas Hall, which was on the corner of Phila and Broadway. And they had a meeting with Susan B. Anthony, and it was very well regarded, very well attended. It was before there was a race track, but still, it was very popular place to go for people who had money and influence, and they knew that that's what the suffrage movement needed, was money and influence. And they had another meeting again in 1855, because it went so well. Then they have the meeting in 1869, in Saratoga, that forms the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, which becomes so influential. And then what I think is so incredibly interesting is the last meeting of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association was held there in 1917. And that was the last one before the vote, and then fortunately, the vote was passed and women got the vote within our state. And that's a really interesting meeting. That is sort of a culmination of all the work that the Association had done throughout its history, and they had really won over all the legislators. They had worked during World War I, doing all kinds of anything that was asked of them. They had worked with the state military census, they had organized Red Cross chapters, they had sold bonds, they had organized food canning clubs, and every political party decided that they were going to support them. And it was quite a meeting. Even Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter and said, “I look forward to seeing the results of the meeting in Saratoga.” And it started out with a car parade, an automobile parade from Buffalo across the state to Saratoga. So that was August 1917. And hundreds of cars were coming down Broadway. And that's when about one in four people owned a car, so that must have really been quite a sight. And again, famous people like Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter, Samuel Gompers wrote a letter of support. Katrina Trask sent a letter saying that she supported suffrage and wanted to make a donation that would have been worth about $5,000 in today's money. So it was really quite an interesting place. I think what's especially interesting about it is it was a turning point, literally in the suffrage movement nationally. And Saratoga is known as the turning point of the Revolution, right? We all know that the American Revolution, and that enfranchised white men, essentially. But it was really a turning point in what many people have called the “bloodless revolution,” which was the 72-year-fight for women's suffrage over which no blood was shed, and voting rights were gained. So I think that its importance is very significant. You mentioned you're from Johnstown, and that's where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born. And you also said it's where she was inspired. Can you go into what you mean by that for me? I sure can. Elizabeth was one of the children born to Judge [Cady] and his wife, and unfortunately, only one of their sons made it to adulthood. Eleazer. And when he came home from Union College, he passed away at the age of 20. And Elizabeth remembers in her autobiography, that, as her father, who saw this as the successor to his law practice, was sitting by the coffin, he was just despondent. She went, and she sat on his lap, and he said, “Oh, Elizabeth, if you've only been a boy.” And apparently after that, she talked to her neighbor, who was the Reverend Simon Hoosick, and asked if he thought boys are better than girls. And he said, “No, of course not.” And she vowed at that point in time that she was going to become as good as any boy. And she became a very good horse woman. And she went to the Johnstown Academy, and was in all the accelerated classes that very few girls were in. And there was a coveted Greek prize, that she won along with another gentleman at one point, and the story goes that she took that Greek prize, which was very coveted, and she ran it down the street, and she went to her father's law office and said, “There, I won the Greek prize.” And he said, “Elizabeth, if you'd only been a boy.” And because her father was a lawyer, and we believe that his law office was adjacent to their home, she spent time there and she learned about the law. And she learned how the law didn't favor women. And there's the story of a woman who came to see the judge, because she had no property rights, and her husband passed away, and her son and his wife were kicking her out of her house, and she had no rights to stay there. And Elizabeth heard this story and vowed to cut all the laws out of his logbooks. And he said, “Elizabeth, you would have to go and talk to the legislature to change a law,” never really realizing that she really would end up doing that one day, and she would help change the property law in New York state. So she really was inspired by the events of her youth that took place in Johnstown. You mentioned when you were describing the conventions that there's parades of cars and famous figures and big donations being made for the effort. Do you see it as a movement that, at the time in Saratoga, was particularly driven by the upper classes, or was there a movement for the everyday folks who wanted this too? I think that when we think about it, and we look at the suffrage movement in New York state, for example, there were women like Rose Schneiderman, who worked so hard for workers' rights as well as for suffrage, knowing that that would help the workers gain a voice in their destiny. But I also think women who had more money had more time to devote to this. And there were certainly women who were immigrants who were very interested in this and worked in suffrage, but they had so much on their plates just to survive and just to get educated and just to keep their families together. But there also were Black women who worked so hard to win the vote when the suffrage movement was not always kind to women of color. So there were really women of every class who worked terribly hard, and devoted themselves to a cause that they didn't even know if they were ever going to see. So I'm so impressed by that as well. And fortunately, I will say that the National Votes for Women Trail has worked hard to try and unearth as many stories as we could for those underrepresented women who aren't known as well as the upper class white women, who we tend to know their names. I was going to ask, as we're looking towards preserving sites that have to do with women's history, what are some things that we should keep in mind? And what are the obstacles that are we're running into nowadays to create more monuments to women in the U.S.? Well, the obstacles in terms of preserving sites are they weren't preserved, unfortunately. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's original house, for example, was moved, and a new one that she lived in was built out of stone, because there have been a number of fires in Johnstown. And it was taken down in 1963. And nobody thought a thing about it, actually. And she was a woman of means, so her family had some money. And that's why we on the National Votes for Women Trail are willing to mark sites, because so many homes, nobody preserved the history of them at all. And especially those that women of color [lived in], they're particularly hard to find. Before those names get lost, it's really our responsibility to do our best to shine a light on the information that we can find in for those few remaining places. Like fortunately, Katherine Starbucks' home is still there. So that's why it's so important to recognize it. Because so many of these homes in locations really are not. It's just, you know, ideally that that people really take some time and do their research. They can go on the National Votes for Women Trail and submit sites in their community, if they find information. We then have somebody who reviews them before they're released to populate the map. But we I just think, fortunately, with the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, there was more interested in women's history. And I think people are more interested in finding out who was in their communities that help them get the rights that they enjoy today. And we also need to be mindful of, you know, all women couldn't vote in 1920, Black Women's still had a long way to go to fight their way through Jim Crow laws before they could vote. And, you know, Native American women weren't even US citizens yet, not for another four years and women of Asian descent. Not until even after that they were not citizens yet, so they didn't get the vote. And as we know, unfortunately, today, voting rights are still being compromised in a variety of places. So I think that is equally important to commemorating their sites, I suppose is commemorating their struggle for the for the right to vote. Well, lastly, in looking at the local impact on women's suffrage movement, what has been your main takeaway? I think the main takeaways – I didn't know any of that history existed there, either. But in every county in New York state, there was an active women's suffrage association. That's how they were able to eventually get the New York state legislature to pass the amendment to the law so that they could vote. But so I think what I have learned is how widespread it was, how many people had to be involved to get this movement over the finish line, if you will. Also, there was a significant anti-suffrage movement that I wasn't aware of before I started doing research. And there were women as well as men who didn't think women voting was a good idea. They thought that they didn't need to vote to make their voice heard. If you dial it all the way back to that first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton said in her Declaration of Sentiments that she felt that women needed the right to vote, almost no one agreed with her then. They said, “Oh, that's too much. You know, we can't go quite that far.” But it was Frederick Douglass who stood up and said, “No, she's right. Without the right to vote…that's the right by which all other rights are gained.” It really was such a Herculean effort. There are so many people that we don't know about, that we should be so grateful for. I think there's so much research to do and so many people we need to try and remember their names and try and find out about them so that their efforts won't be lost. Nancy Brown is the chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail. You can view the trail and learn more about a site near you on the website for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has a map for all of its historic markers at wgpfoundation.org. Lastly, on the topic of preserving women's history, the New York State Museum in Albany has launched a new effort to expand and diversify its collections — specifically, its sports collections. It's all ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX this June — Title IX, of course, is the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. It applies to all aspects of education, but one of its most visual impacts was in sports, requiring schools to equally support girls' and boys' teams. The museum is trying to balance out its own recollection of sports history by recognizing juggernauts like the WNBA's New York Liberty, or special events like the all-female Aurora Games, which launched in Albany in 2019. I spoke with the museum's senior historian and curator for social history, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, to learn more. "At the New York State Museum, our entire history curatorial department has been working on really evaluating our collections, and what strengths we have, and also what stories we're missing," says Hopkins-Benton. "And diversity, of course, is always something that we're trying to get more into the collections. But a couple of years ago, in 2017, when we were working on the Votes for Women exhibit about the centennial of women's suffrage in New York state, we realized women's history collections were really lacking. And then shortly after that, Steve Loughman, who is our sports curator, also was realizing that sports were really lacking, which is crazy when you think about New York and all of the great sports teams and sports stories that we have. So simultaneously, we were both working on these things. And because of the upcoming anniversary of the passage of Title IX, it became very apparent that women's sports were a particular collection that was lacking." So what kinds of items are you looking for in this collection? Well, let me start with what we have, because it's very small. It's all out on the table in front of us right now, we really have two collections that speak to women's sports as they relate to New York state. So one is a collection of material from the New York Liberty basketball team, the WNBA team. And this came in from a woman named Pam Elam, who is a feminist and a women's history scholar, and was really interested in collecting women's history and LGBTQ history as it pertained to culture and politics and sports and everything. So this came in before we even knew that women's sports was something that was missing from our collections, and it includes tickets and calendars and bios of the players. So it's a really great snapshot of the league. And these all came from around 10 years of the league being in existence. So that was the first thing that we had. And then a couple years ago, when Albany hosted the Aurora games, a couple of us all went out to different events and collected pins and basketballs and shirts and other materials from that. So that was a great opportunity as well. So we have two examples, more on the professional sports side of things. But we would love to collect more amateur sports, girls playing in high school, women in college, and those stories. I'm definitely looking for stories of trailblazers, women who were the first to play their sports. New York has so many great stories of girls who play on their high school football team, or I spoke to a woman earlier who was the first girl in her high school to earn a letter by playing on the men's golf team back in the ‘60s. So I am also looking to speak to women. I'd like to do some oral histories of women who were involved in sports at various times in history. Cool. Now, if someone has something that they think might be a good addition to the collection, what is the process of giving that to the museum? Well, reaching out to the museum and to me in particular, and then I bring it to our collections committee, and we discuss it as a group – how it fits into the collection, if it's something that we can responsibly take care of, and if it's something that has research and exhibition value in the future. If you think you may have something you'd like to contribute to the collection, you can find more information at the museum's website. You can also email Ashley Hopkins-Benton at ashley.hopkins-benton@nysed.gov. Title IX turns 50 on June 23. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue.
On this week's 51%, we recognize Women's History Month. We learn about Sarah Smiley, a controversial Quaker minister who dared to preach to women — and men — in the 19th Century, and Nancy Brown of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites provides a more local lens on the women's suffrage movement. We also stop by the New York State Museum to learn about a new initiative to expand its collection on women's sports. Guests: Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation; Nancy Brown, National Collaborative for Women's History Sites; Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. All month long, we've recognized Women's History Month by taking the time to learn about prominent American women, past and present. At the end of each episode, we visited exhibits at the New York State Capitol and spoke with the National Women's Hall of Fame. This week, I wanted to take a more local approach — mostly because, as a transplant in Central New York, I'm forever catching up on my Capital Region history, but also to serve as a reminder about the wealth of history that's right in our local communities. We're also flipping the script this week — rather than ending with a “woman you should know,” let's start with one. At the end of last year, the city council of Saratoga Springs, New York, unanimously voted to designate a small cottage on Excelsior Avenue a local landmark. The Smiley-Brackett Cottage, as it's called, is thought to be a prime example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 19th Century — but it's also noteworthy for those who lived there. The house was owned by and built for Sarah Smiley, a popular, yet controversial Quaker minister. "She really had this significant impact, I think, on women and public speaking," says Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The Foundation led the effort to acquire the local landmark designation. Smiley was born the daughter of a well-known Quaker family in Maine in 1830 (her father and brothers would go on to build the popular Mohonk Mountain House resort in the Catskills, which still operates today). She initially sought to become a teacher, but after the Civil War, Bosshart says Smiley went South to “relieve human suffering.” "She traveled to Virginia and to North Carolina, aiding Quakers in organizing schools and libraries," Bosshart notes. "She helped to start a school for 1,000 free Black adults and children in Richmond, Virginia — but that's not really what made her well-known. She later spoke to what they called 'mixed audiences,' and when we say 'mixed audiences,' we're talking about men and women. Women did not speak in front of a congregation, that just wasn't happening." In 1872, popular minister Theodore Cuyler invited Smiley to preach before a mixed congregation at the Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn — making her the first woman to speak from a Presbyterian pulpit. "This caused a ruckus," says Bosshart. "This made Harper's Weekly news, and she was said to 'teach and to extort, or to lead in prayer in public and promiscuous assemblies...[it's] clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles.' But what we learned, or what I learned after that, was that she was so well-received amongst her audiences that she was asked to speak across the country and abroad." Soon, Bosshart says Smiley was speaking in churches from Cincinnati, to London, to Cube. She was adamant that women could study the scriptures themselves, without the help of men. She started a home Bible study program for women, and would go on to write five books on the subject — some of which are still published today. Bosshart says Smiley's Gothic-Revival cottage was built the same year of her notorious appearance in Brooklyn. She's not sure why Smiley chose to settle in Saratoga Springs, but it appears she knew exactly what she wanted in terms of a home. "Andrew Jackson Downing, he published his Cottage Residence in 1842, and The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850. Alexander Jackson Davis designed and drew the illustrations featured — her house looks nearly identical to one of those cottages. Perhaps because it was the gothic style that is reminiscent of churches, perhaps [she was] being influenced by seeing these rural cottages, and she wanted it to be in keeping with that," Bosshart adds. "She would come to Saratoga to study. In an article in 1874 in The Saratogian, it said, 'She speaks twice almost every day in the week. She only spends six months of the year in preaching, the remainder of the year, during the summer months, in diligent study in her cottage in Saratoga.' So I think, perhaps, it was where she had peace and quiet." Following Smiley's death in 1917, the cottage was left to The Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, the group she had founded to promote religious study by mail. It was ultimately bought by another famous name who owned the property until 1968: Charles W. Brackett. Brackett was a popular author, New Yorker drama critic, and screenwriter of films including Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, and 1953's Titanic. In 1958, he received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Bosshart says the cottage ultimately fell into disrepair following Brackett's death. The building is privately owned, so she notes there's nothing the Foundation or city can explicitly do to restore it at this time, but she remains hopeful that they can work with the owner down the line. In the meantime, the Foundation is celebrating the local landmark designation, which requires a review for any demolition or new construction in the future. "I think it's important that we continue to recognize all the people that contribute to the stories of our communities. Having an opportunity to be a part of ensuring that Sarah Smiley's story is told and preserved is rewarding," says Bosshart. Saratoga Springs, as it turns out, saw many aspects of women's history. When we talk about the Women's Suffrage Movement, we tend to start with the Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 — but as our next guest will tell us, there's a lot of local history to the movement, including in Saratoga Springs. Nancy Brown is a board member of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail, a database of more than 2,000 sites significant to women's suffrage across the U.S. She says the goal was to highlight the nationwide, grassroots commitment that was needed to gain women the vote, and honor the ongoing struggle for voting rights across the U.S. How did you get involved in the National Votes for Women Trail? I think that my interest in women suffered comes from the fact that I'm a native of Johnstown, New York, and that is home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, where not only she was born, but inspired. So I think that has always made me very interested in women's suffrage. I was a board member on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and this became a project that was originally, actually, a funded project that was proposed by Hillary Clinton – to have a Votes for Women Trail. And it was passed, the legislation was passed, but there were never any funds appropriated for it. So I remember being on a phone call, years ago now, and we were bemoaning the fact that there was no money to tell the story of women's suffrage – how half of our democracy became enfranchised, which is a pretty huge story. And we got thinking that really, suffragists we're all volunteer operations. So that's how the National Votes for Women Trail got started: a number of volunteers stepped up and we ended up creating a national network. And our goal was to have 2,020 sites on a database, a mobile friendly, searchable database by 2020 – which we exceeded, and we're now at 2,300 sites, it at nvwt.org. And along the way, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation in Syracuse, New York, recognized the importance of the project and offered to fund historic markers for places of specific significance around the country. And they are doing that for over 200 markers. So it was through that project that I kind of stumbled across the wonderful suffrage history in Saratoga. So what role did Saratoga play in the women's suffrage movement? Well, I will tell you how I stumbled across it, to be honest with you. One of the most important and influential associations was the New York State Women's Suffrage Association. And when I was doing a little research on where it started, I realized that it started at a meeting in Saratoga in July of 1869. Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was famous suffragist from Syracuse, actually had called a meeting to form a state women's suffrage association, and it was held at Congress Hall, which is where the corner of Congress Park and Spring Street is in Saratoga. And it was chaired by Susan B. Anthony. And the result of it was the formation of the New York Women's Suffrage Association. Why that's so important is this will become the association that helps women win the right to vote in New York state, which happened in 1917. They lost the bid for voting in 1915, but were able to get it in 1917. And why that's so important is we were the 12th state in the nation to pass women's suffrage – but the other states were in the West, and we were the first state in the east to pass this. And Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous suffragist, called this the Gettysburg of the woman's suffrage association. So come to find out that started right in Saratoga. And when I looked back a little further, I found that that was not the first women's rights convention in Saratoga. Well, we know that the very first one was in Seneca Falls in 1848, that sort of began the idea of having women's rights conventions. And after that there was one in Rochester, but in 1854, actually – the suffragists were such strategic thinkers that there were some other associations meeting in Saratoga, and they decided to go to Nikolas Hall, which was on the corner of Phila and Broadway. And they had a meeting with Susan B. Anthony, and it was very well regarded, very well attended. It was before there was a race track, but still, it was very popular place to go for people who had money and influence, and they knew that that's what the suffrage movement needed, was money and influence. And they had another meeting again in 1855, because it went so well. Then they have the meeting in 1869, in Saratoga, that forms the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, which becomes so influential. And then what I think is so incredibly interesting is the last meeting of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association was held there in 1917. And that was the last one before the vote, and then fortunately, the vote was passed and women got the vote within our state. And that's a really interesting meeting. That is sort of a culmination of all the work that the Association had done throughout its history, and they had really won over all the legislators. They had worked during World War I, doing all kinds of anything that was asked of them. They had worked with the state military census, they had organized Red Cross chapters, they had sold bonds, they had organized food canning clubs, and every political party decided that they were going to support them. And it was quite a meeting. Even Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter and said, “I look forward to seeing the results of the meeting in Saratoga.” And it started out with a car parade, an automobile parade from Buffalo across the state to Saratoga. So that was August 1917. And hundreds of cars were coming down Broadway. And that's when about one in four people owned a car, so that must have really been quite a sight. And again, famous people like Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter, Samuel Gompers wrote a letter of support. Katrina Trask sent a letter saying that she supported suffrage and wanted to make a donation that would have been worth about $5,000 in today's money. So it was really quite an interesting place. I think what's especially interesting about it is it was a turning point, literally in the suffrage movement nationally. And Saratoga is known as the turning point of the Revolution, right? We all know that the American Revolution, and that enfranchised white men, essentially. But it was really a turning point in what many people have called the “bloodless revolution,” which was the 72-year-fight for women's suffrage over which no blood was shed, and voting rights were gained. So I think that its importance is very significant. You mentioned you're from Johnstown, and that's where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born. And you also said it's where she was inspired. Can you go into what you mean by that for me? I sure can. Elizabeth was one of the children born to Judge [Cady] and his wife, and unfortunately, only one of their sons made it to adulthood. Eleazer. And when he came home from Union College, he passed away at the age of 20. And Elizabeth remembers in her autobiography, that, as her father, who saw this as the successor to his law practice, was sitting by the coffin, he was just despondent. She went, and she sat on his lap, and he said, “Oh, Elizabeth, if you've only been a boy.” And apparently after that, she talked to her neighbor, who was the Reverend Simon Hoosick, and asked if he thought boys are better than girls. And he said, “No, of course not.” And she vowed at that point in time that she was going to become as good as any boy. And she became a very good horse woman. And she went to the Johnstown Academy, and was in all the accelerated classes that very few girls were in. And there was a coveted Greek prize, that she won along with another gentleman at one point, and the story goes that she took that Greek prize, which was very coveted, and she ran it down the street, and she went to her father's law office and said, “There, I won the Greek prize.” And he said, “Elizabeth, if you'd only been a boy.” And because her father was a lawyer, and we believe that his law office was adjacent to their home, she spent time there and she learned about the law. And she learned how the law didn't favor women. And there's the story of a woman who came to see the judge, because she had no property rights, and her husband passed away, and her son and his wife were kicking her out of her house, and she had no rights to stay there. And Elizabeth heard this story and vowed to cut all the laws out of his logbooks. And he said, “Elizabeth, you would have to go and talk to the legislature to change a law,” never really realizing that she really would end up doing that one day, and she would help change the property law in New York state. So she really was inspired by the events of her youth that took place in Johnstown. You mentioned when you were describing the conventions that there's parades of cars and famous figures and big donations being made for the effort. Do you see it as a movement that, at the time in Saratoga, was particularly driven by the upper classes, or was there a movement for the everyday folks who wanted this too? I think that when we think about it, and we look at the suffrage movement in New York state, for example, there were women like Rose Schneiderman, who worked so hard for workers' rights as well as for suffrage, knowing that that would help the workers gain a voice in their destiny. But I also think women who had more money had more time to devote to this. And there were certainly women who were immigrants who were very interested in this and worked in suffrage, but they had so much on their plates just to survive and just to get educated and just to keep their families together. But there also were Black women who worked so hard to win the vote when the suffrage movement was not always kind to women of color. So there were really women of every class who worked terribly hard, and devoted themselves to a cause that they didn't even know if they were ever going to see. So I'm so impressed by that as well. And fortunately, I will say that the National Votes for Women Trail has worked hard to try and unearth as many stories as we could for those underrepresented women who aren't known as well as the upper class white women, who we tend to know their names. I was going to ask, as we're looking towards preserving sites that have to do with women's history, what are some things that we should keep in mind? And what are the obstacles that are we're running into nowadays to create more monuments to women in the U.S.? Well, the obstacles in terms of preserving sites are they weren't preserved, unfortunately. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's original house, for example, was moved, and a new one that she lived in was built out of stone, because there have been a number of fires in Johnstown. And it was taken down in 1963. And nobody thought a thing about it, actually. And she was a woman of means, so her family had some money. And that's why we on the National Votes for Women Trail are willing to mark sites, because so many homes, nobody preserved the history of them at all. And especially those that women of color [lived in], they're particularly hard to find. Before those names get lost, it's really our responsibility to do our best to shine a light on the information that we can find in for those few remaining places. Like fortunately, Katherine Starbucks' home is still there. So that's why it's so important to recognize it. Because so many of these homes in locations really are not. It's just, you know, ideally that that people really take some time and do their research. They can go on the National Votes for Women Trail and submit sites in their community, if they find information. We then have somebody who reviews them before they're released to populate the map. But we I just think, fortunately, with the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, there was more interested in women's history. And I think people are more interested in finding out who was in their communities that help them get the rights that they enjoy today. And we also need to be mindful of, you know, all women couldn't vote in 1920, Black Women's still had a long way to go to fight their way through Jim Crow laws before they could vote. And, you know, Native American women weren't even US citizens yet, not for another four years and women of Asian descent. Not until even after that they were not citizens yet, so they didn't get the vote. And as we know, unfortunately, today, voting rights are still being compromised in a variety of places. So I think that is equally important to commemorating their sites, I suppose is commemorating their struggle for the for the right to vote. Well, lastly, in looking at the local impact on women's suffrage movement, what has been your main takeaway? I think the main takeaways – I didn't know any of that history existed there, either. But in every county in New York state, there was an active women's suffrage association. That's how they were able to eventually get the New York state legislature to pass the amendment to the law so that they could vote. But so I think what I have learned is how widespread it was, how many people had to be involved to get this movement over the finish line, if you will. Also, there was a significant anti-suffrage movement that I wasn't aware of before I started doing research. And there were women as well as men who didn't think women voting was a good idea. They thought that they didn't need to vote to make their voice heard. If you dial it all the way back to that first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton said in her Declaration of Sentiments that she felt that women needed the right to vote, almost no one agreed with her then. They said, “Oh, that's too much. You know, we can't go quite that far.” But it was Frederick Douglass who stood up and said, “No, she's right. Without the right to vote…that's the right by which all other rights are gained.” It really was such a Herculean effort. There are so many people that we don't know about, that we should be so grateful for. I think there's so much research to do and so many people we need to try and remember their names and try and find out about them so that their efforts won't be lost. Nancy Brown is the chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail. You can view the trail and learn more about a site near you on the website for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has a map for all of its historic markers at wgpfoundation.org. Lastly, on the topic of preserving women's history, the New York State Museum in Albany has launched a new effort to expand and diversify its collections — specifically, its sports collections. It's all ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX this June — Title IX, of course, is the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. It applies to all aspects of education, but one of its most visual impacts was in sports, requiring schools to equally support girls' and boys' teams. The museum is trying to balance out its own recollection of sports history by recognizing juggernauts like the WNBA's New York Liberty, or special events like the all-female Aurora Games, which launched in Albany in 2019. I spoke with the museum's senior historian and curator for social history, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, to learn more. "At the New York State Museum, our entire history curatorial department has been working on really evaluating our collections, and what strengths we have, and also what stories we're missing," says Hopkins-Benton. "And diversity, of course, is always something that we're trying to get more into the collections. But a couple of years ago, in 2017, when we were working on the Votes for Women exhibit about the centennial of women's suffrage in New York state, we realized women's history collections were really lacking. And then shortly after that, Steve Loughman, who is our sports curator, also was realizing that sports were really lacking, which is crazy when you think about New York and all of the great sports teams and sports stories that we have. So simultaneously, we were both working on these things. And because of the upcoming anniversary of the passage of Title IX, it became very apparent that women's sports were a particular collection that was lacking." So what kinds of items are you looking for in this collection? Well, let me start with what we have, because it's very small. It's all out on the table in front of us right now, we really have two collections that speak to women's sports as they relate to New York state. So one is a collection of material from the New York Liberty basketball team, the WNBA team. And this came in from a woman named Pam Elam, who is a feminist and a women's history scholar, and was really interested in collecting women's history and LGBTQ history as it pertained to culture and politics and sports and everything. So this came in before we even knew that women's sports was something that was missing from our collections, and it includes tickets and calendars and bios of the players. So it's a really great snapshot of the league. And these all came from around 10 years of the league being in existence. So that was the first thing that we had. And then a couple years ago, when Albany hosted the Aurora games, a couple of us all went out to different events and collected pins and basketballs and shirts and other materials from that. So that was a great opportunity as well. So we have two examples, more on the professional sports side of things. But we would love to collect more amateur sports, girls playing in high school, women in college, and those stories. I'm definitely looking for stories of trailblazers, women who were the first to play their sports. New York has so many great stories of girls who play on their high school football team, or I spoke to a woman earlier who was the first girl in her high school to earn a letter by playing on the men's golf team back in the ‘60s. So I am also looking to speak to women. I'd like to do some oral histories of women who were involved in sports at various times in history. Cool. Now, if someone has something that they think might be a good addition to the collection, what is the process of giving that to the museum? Well, reaching out to the museum and to me in particular, and then I bring it to our collections committee, and we discuss it as a group – how it fits into the collection, if it's something that we can responsibly take care of, and if it's something that has research and exhibition value in the future. If you think you may have something you'd like to contribute to the collection, you can find more information at the museum's website. You can also email Ashley Hopkins-Benton at ashley.hopkins-benton@nysed.gov. Title IX turns 50 on June 23. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue.
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a radical feminist of the 19th century. Alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the trio were known as the triumvirate, but due to the turns of history you might not know her name.Special thanks to LinkedIn as our exclusive Women's History Month sponsor on Womanica. Join the conversation happening around the world, as LinkedIn members are redefining what it means to be a professional in today's work environment.History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, and Ale Tejeda. Special thanks to Shira Atkins.Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at pod@wondermedianetwork.com.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitterTo take the Womanica listener survey, please visit: https://wondermedianetwork.com/survey
Episode # 135 - This WONDERFUL WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT WEDNESDAY, we celebrate Native American Women and particularly Mohawk Clan Mother Louise Herne and Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner (a major historian of the suffrage movement) who explore the untold story of how indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. They shake the foundation of the established history of the women's right movement in the US, in PBS Short Film entitled "Without A Whisper." We also talk about Susan B. Anthony known for women's suffrage, women's rights, and abolitionism, not just a face on a coin. “Never was justice more perfect; never was civilization higher,” suffrage leader Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote about the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy, whose territory extended throughout New York State. Matilda Joslyn Gage led the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the three women trading executive positions over the 20 years of the organization's existence. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY? LINKS BELOW FOR: APPLE, GOOGLE, PANDORA, AND SPOTIFY. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladiespromotingtransparentadvocacy/id1526382637 https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2xhZGllc3Byb21vdGluZ3RyYW5zcGFyZW50YWR2b2NhY3kvZmVlZC54bWw&ep=14 https://www.pandora.com/podcast/ladiespromotingtransparentadvocacy/PC:52161?corr=17965216&part=ug&_branch_match_id=819557998249581330 https://open.spotify.com/show/5x7xSxWi2wj2UXPsWnZ0cw?si=peGax6j6SIumBT5tq7_hhg Sources: https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/ https://www.pbs.org/video/without-a-whisper-wnpj8u/ https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/how-native-american-women-inspired-the-women-s-rights-movement.htm Follow us on Instagram: @advocacyladies Follow us on Twitter: @AdvocacyLadies Podcast Email: podcasthostshapta19@gmail.com Org. Email: Ladiespromotingtransparentadvo@gmail.com Podcast Call-in Line: 404-855-7723
Bryce has abandoned me to the pit. I will rouse myself and hold fast to the LORD in this trial, he will help me to fly SOLO this week on the For The King podcast. We have been slowly walking through a biblical worldview when considering gender roles. This week I use Zach Garris' book as a resource to quote a few feminist from he 1st wave in the 1850's. They knew what the bible CLEARLY taught about biblical gender roles and by golly did they hate it. I labor to expose you all to what they said about biblical principles and analyze what has caused them to say such things. Lets not let the feminist understand what the bible clearly teaches about the patriarchy be more robust and accurate than ours... *ahem* egalitarians/complementarians *ahem*. Zach's book : https://www.amazon.com/Masculine-Christianity-Zachary-Garris/dp/1735473901/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=masculine+christianity&qid=1633305579&sr=8-1 Quotations from: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. History of Woman Suffrage ... ed. 2. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1889. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's, "First annual meeting of the womans state temperance society," in The American Nation: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008). pages 373-374 Stanton, E. C. (1991). The woman's Bible. Salem, N.H: Ayer. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2585 Anna Howard Shaw's, "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic," in The American Nation: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008). pages 387 and 389 Website: Forthekingpodcast.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/For-The-King-105492691873696/ Contact: forthekingpodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky-ramsey/support
The Wizard of Oz is best known as one of the most watched films of all time, or as one of its many re-incarnations, such as the hugely successful Broadway musical Wicked or the Soviet, The Wizard of the Emerald City. But fewer people nowadays may be aware of the original book by the American writer L. Frank Baum that inspired these stories about a young girl who travels through a magic land in the company of a talking scarecrow, a tin man and a fearful lion. While he was a controversial figure, it was L. Frank Baum's ideas about social justice and rights for women which pervade not just The Wizard of Oz but also its sequels, and explain why this story in its many forms has inspired many minority groups, from the African American to the LGBT communities. Joining Bridget Kendall is Michael Patrick Hearn, considered to be the world's leading Oz scholar, and author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; Dr Sally Roesch Wagner, who specialises in the feminist aspects of The Wizard of Oz including the influence of Frank Baum's mother-in-law, the women's rights campaigner, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the Russian writer Olga Zilberbourg who has studied the very popular Soviet version of the story. Produced by Anne Khazam for the BBC World Service. [Image: Publicity still from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images]
Episode 42:This week we're continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.The full book is available online here:https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis[Part 1 - 2]1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD[Part 3]2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS[Part 4 - 5]3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)[Part 6 - This Week]4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTReading - 00:38Discussion - 33:00[Part 7]5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN[Part 8]6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE[Part 9]7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM[Part 10]8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT[Part 11]9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT[Part 12 - 13]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN[Part 14 - 15]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST[Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS[Part 18-19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:1) – 02:30Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1861–1876) (Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann, 1887), pp. 94–95 (note).2) – 04:02Ibid., p. 172.3) – 05:36Ibid, p. 159.4) – 06:34Ibid., p. 188.5) – 07:34Ibid., p. 216.6) – 08:05Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 240.7) – 08:29Ibid., pp. 240–241.8) – 08:45Ibid., p. 241.9) – 11:00Gurko, op. cit., p. 213.10) – 11:08Ibid.11) – 11:59Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214.12) – 13:50Flexner, op. cit., p. 144.13) – 15:20Allen, op. cit., p. 143.14) – 16:10Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 167. This passage comes from a speech entitled “The Need for Continuing Anti-Slavery Work” delivered by Douglass at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, May 9, 1865. Originally published in the Liberator, May 26, 1865.15) – 17:25Ibid., p. 17.16) – 18:04Ibid., p. 41.17) – 18:52Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 553–554. “Memphis Riots and Massacres.” Report No. 101, House of Representatives, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Serial #1274), pp. 160–161, 222–223.18) – 19:25Foster, op. cit., p. 261.19) – 20:35W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books,1964), p. 670.20) – 20:48Ibid., p. 671.21) – 21:09Ibid., p. 672.22) – 22:24According to Philip Foner, “Douglass objected to Susan Anthony's praise of James Brooks' championship of woman suffrage in Congress, pointing out that it was simply ‘the trick of the enemy to assail and endanger the right of black men.' Brooks, former editor of the New York Express, a viciously anti-Negro, pro-slavery paper, was playing up to the leaders of the women's movement in order to secure their support in opposing Negro suffrage. Douglass warned that if the women did not see through these devices of the former slave owners and their northern allies, ‘there would be trouble in our family.' ” (Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, pp. 41–42)23) – 23:20Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 245.24) – 23:50Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.25) – 23:59Gurko, op. cit., p. 223.26) – 24:16Ibid., pp. 223–224.27) – 24:51Ibid., p. 221. Also Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.28) – 26:06Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 382.29) – 26:50Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 44.30) – 26:58Ibid.31) – 27:08Ibid.32) – 27:42Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 222. See also Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 569.33) – 28:03Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 212 (letter to Josephine Sophie White Griffin, Rochester, September 27, 1968).34) – 28:12Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 928. Sojourner Truth was criticizing Henry Ward Beecher's approach to the suffrage question. See Allen's analysis, op. cit., p. 148.35) – 28:4235) - 28:42Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 391. Frances E. W. Harper warned the gathering of the dangers of racism by describing a situation in Boston where sixty white women walked off the job to protest the hiring of one Black woman. (p. 392)36) – 29:58Allen, op. cit., p. 145.37) – 30:36Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214. See also Allen, op. cit., p. 146.
Episode 39:This week we're continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.The full book is available online here:https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis [Part 1 - 2]1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD [Part 3 - This Week]2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S RIGHTSReading – 00:28Discussion – 33:10[Part 4 - 5]3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN[Part 6]4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT[Part 7]5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN[Part 8]6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE [Part 9]7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM[Part 10]8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT [Part 11]9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT [Part 12 - 13]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN[Part 14 - 15]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST [Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS [Part 18-19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:1) – 00:48Douglass, op. cit., p. 469. 2) – 01:01Ibid., p. 472. 3) – 01:37Ibid. 4) – 02:04Ibid. 5) – 02:34Stowe, op. cit. Frederick Douglass included the following comments in his autobiography: “In the midst of these fugitive slave troubles came the book known as Uncle Tom's Cabin, a work of marvelous depth and power. Nothing could have better suited the moral and human requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal. No book on the subject of slavery had so generally and favorably touched the American heart. It combined all the power and pathos of preceding publications of the kind, and was hailed by many as an inspired production. Mrs. Stowe at once became an object of interest and admiration.” (Douglass, op. cit., p. 282) 6) – 03:17Stowe, op. cit., p. 107. 7) – 05:07See Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework,”Chapter 5 of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978). Also Ann Oakley, Woman's Work: The Housewife Past and Present (New York: Vintage Books, 1976). 8) – 06:19See Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. (New York: Atheneum, 1973). Also Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975). 9) – 07:04See Aptheker, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (New York: Humanities Press, 1966); Harriet H.Robinson, Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976). Also Wertheimer, op. cit., and Flexner, op. cit. 10) – 07:49Robinson, op. cit., p. 51. 11) – 08:22See discussion of this tendency to equate the institution of marriage with that of slavery in Pamela Allen, “Woman Suffrage: Feminism and White Supremacy,”Chapter V of Robert Allen, Reluctant Reformers (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974), pp. 1368. 12) – 09:28Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 106.13) – 10:07See Flexner, op. cit., pp. 38–40. Also Samuel Sillen, Women Against Slavery (New York: Masses and Mainstream, Inc., 1955), pp. 11–16. 14) – 11:18Sillen, op. cit., p. 13. 15) – 12:10Ibid. 16) – 12:31Ibid., p. 14. 17) – 14:15Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in William Z. Foster, The Negro People in American History (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 108. 18) – 16:10Sillen, op. cit., p. 17.19) – 16:53Ibid. 20) – 17:04The first woman to speak publicly in the United States was the Scottish-born lecturer and writer Frances Wright (see Flexner, op. cit., pp. 27–28). When the Black woman Maria W. Stewart delivered four lectures in Boston in 1832, she became the first native-born woman to speak publicly (see Lerner, op. cit., p. 83).21) – 17:49Flexner, op. cit., p. 42. See the text of the constitution of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in Judith Papachristou, editor, Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women's Movement in the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Ms. Book, 1976), pp. 4–5. 22) – 18:21Sillen, op. cit., p. 20.23) – 18:45Ibid., pp. 21–22. 24) – 19:22Ibid., p. 25. 25) – 21:29Flexner, op. cit., p. 51.26) – 22:46Ibid. 27) – 23:53Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage,Vol. 1 (1848–1861) (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), p. 52. 28) – 24:51Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12. See Gerda Lerner's analysis of the pastoral letter in her work The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), p. 189. 29) – 25:03Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12.30) – 25:42Ibid. 31) – 26:57Sarah Grimke began publishing her Letters on the Equality of the Sexes in July, 1837. They appeared in the New England Spectator and were reprinted in the Liberator. See Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 187. 32) – 27:31Quoted in Alice Rossi, editor, The Feminist Papers (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 308. 33) – 27:46Ibid. 34) – 28:5834. Quoted in Flexner, op. cit., p. 48. Also quoted and discussed in Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 201. 35) – 30:49Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Held by Adjournment from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 (New York: W. S. Dorr, 1838), pp. 13–14. 36) – 31:17Ibid., p. 21. 37) – 31:34Flexner, op. cit., p. 47. 38) – 32:43Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.
How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out? Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner--founder and executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and Center for Social Justice Dialogue; a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States; and author of The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Sisters in Spirit--introduces Eve and Julie to Matilda Joslyn Gage, the should-be household name of the suffrage movement whom Gloria Steinem called “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time.” Sally has dedicated her life’s work to restoring Gage to her rightful place in history. In this episode, Sally, Eve, and Julie explore how power dynamics (in politics, in social changes movements) followed a familiar playbook in the 19th century; how Indigenous women modeled an egalitarian society for 19th century feminists; why L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was a gender-bending, revolutionary text ahead of its time, in no small part because of Matilda Gage; and how Susan B. Anthony erased Matilda Gage’s name from the pages of history. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Born in Upstate New York to an abolitionist family, Matilda Joslyn Gage was one of the three most famous suffragists in America. Yet her story is all but forgotten in the annals of time because she was considered too radical. Today many of the ideas she championed are taken for granted. Women have been voting for decades and we have much more control over our finances, however, there are still plenty of issues Matilda championed that have never been realized. And here's a little tidbit, Matilda was the inspiration for L. Frank Baum's character, Glenda the Good Witch in the Oz books. Many of her ideas are woven into the series. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/susan-sherayko/support
Ailín Trepiana se refirió a la campaña española que quiere poner fin a la invisibilidad de las mujeres en el mundo de la ciencia. El nombre de la campaña hace referencia a Matilda Joslyn Gage; la primera en denunciar la tendencia sistemática por la que brillantes científicas fueron ninguneadas y sus logros, silenciados, o generalmente atribuidos a otros.
Welcome to Part 2 of our second to last chapter down the yellow brick road! Glinda reveals the true nature of the Silver Shoes as Dorothy bids her new friends farewell and claps her heels together to find herself on the plains of Kansas once more. Tara and EmKay unpack the history of mourning in the United States, question the use of the Golden Cap, share more Good Witch of the North theories, and reflect on their top second favorite moment of the season. Stay tuned for next week's final chapter, ya'll! Thank you for being here.Show NotesNational Museum of Funeral HistoryThe Wizard of Oz Invented the Good Witch - Pam GrossmanInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
Our journey down the yellow brick road is approaching its end as Dorothy and friends finally meet the glorious, glamorous, Good Witch of the South, Glinda, who has secrets to reveal and loose ends to tie up in Dorothy's adventure. Tara and EmKay start feeling the feels as they kick off the Yuletide Season and reflect on their time in the original sacred text of Oz. Childhood memories of Billie Burke's bubbly portrayal in the MGM film, revelations about the Golden Cap, and theories about the inspiration behind Glinda abound in Part 1. Stay tuned for Part 2 dropping Wednesday!Show Notes:Meaning of RubiesMatilda Joslyn Gage - The Unlikely Inspiration for the Wizard of OzGlinda - Oz WikiImmigrant Nation (2020)Instagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
Matilda a dynamic but mainly forgotten figure in the women's rights movement. She was also a creative force in the writing of the Wizard of Oz. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/500yearsofcrazy/support
Picking back up in the Dainty China Country, our friends encounter a milkmaid, a clown, and a Princess, who all shed light on the lifestyle of the land's inhabitants. Tara and EmKay unpack what contributes to fragility, complicated U.S./China relations history, and ultimately are reminded of the idea of "sonder" - the realization that everyone we encounter has their own unique, complex, internal life separate from our own, and that is something to be honored.Show Notes:Terracotta ArmyMoney and Politics in the Land of Oz by Quentin P. TaylorBoxer RebellionBryce Canyon National ParkHoliday Train ShowInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
As our friends journey to the South to visit Glinda, they are met by a grove of trees who may or may not be "fighting trees" (we'll leave it up to you to decide). Tara and EmKay reminisce about bidding farewell to places and experiences they had before the pandemic hit, share thoughts on virtue signaling, and start mentally preparing for next week's chapter (The Dainty China Country) in the midst of the 2020 Presidential Election (we're here for you).Show Notes:How to Succeed in Business Without Really TryingMaltz Jupiter TheatreBecome a PollworkerHair (2009)The Soul of AmericaInventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. GómezInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
Welcome to October's Yellow Brick Crossroads, a monthly bonus episode where Tara and EmKay interact with the incredible snail mail, social media reach-outs, reviews, corrections, and Oz memories you fine listeners share! October's YBC include Tara's trip to Matilda Joslyn Gage's house, EmKay's thoughts on Judy (2019), listener reactions to recent episodes regarding L. Frank Baum's comments on race, and SO much more! This one is jam packed ya'll. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your day and sacred Oz memories with us.Show Notes:Sympathy or Racism? L. Frank Baum on Native Americans by Hunter LiguoreFuture Islands - "Tin Man" by Lee LynchDehumanization in Oz: The Scarecrow and Tin Man Mimics, the Lion Cannibal by Heather Foster'Oz': Neither Great Nor Powerful - NPRYellow Brick Road Apartment - AirbnbAll Things Oz MuseumMatilda Joslyn Gage FoundationThe Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist by Gita Dorothy MorenaThe Baby Snooks Show'Gone with the Wind' pulled from HBO Max until it can return with 'historical context' by Frank PallottaJudy (2019)Cinema Classics: The Wizard of Oz - SNLLetters from Felix: A Little Rabbit on a World Tour with Envelope by Annette LangenSong of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn by Philip BurnhamInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
The Susan B. Anthony Museum and House rejected President Trump's pardon of Susan B. Anthony last week. Trump pardoned Anthony last Tuesday on the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for voting before it was legal for women to do so. Some historians say Anthony would not have wanted to be pardoned because she didn't think she did anything wrong. This hour, we discuss Anthony's legacy, the suffragist movement, and the state of equal rights and voting rights in America a century after most women earned the right to vote. Our guests: Deborah Hughes , president and CEO of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House Walt Gable , Seneca County Historian Mary Corey , associate professor, emerita, at SUNY Brockport, and author of “The Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn Gage”
In commemoration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18th, 1920, the incredible Sue Boland sat down with us to discuss one of the most courageous pioneers of equality and women's rights (and L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law), Matilda Joslyn Gage. Without her, Baum may have never been encouraged to sit down and "write his stories." Sue is the Local Historian for the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center in Fayetteville, New York, and will leave you feeling fired up to learn more about the Mother of Oz and keep fighting for the rights and equalities of all.Show Notes:Matilda Joslyn Gage Center"An Interview with Sue Boland"Sally Roesch WagnerWoman, Church, and State by Matilda Joslyn GageInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshrayOriginal music by Shane Chapman
In 1870 Matilda Joslyn Gage published her tract "Woman as Inventor." This pamphlet listed many women in science who went unnoticed while their male counterparts received accolades. Even this year, not one woman received a Nobel in science or medicine. This podcast names the many women who deserved scientific accolades for their contributions to science. And, it lists several things we can do to fix the Matilda Effect! If you would like to read more about the Matilda Effect and several tremendous women in science, you can read more at https://www.mathsciencehistory.com
Today we're discussing organised crime and murder, 17th century-style. In 1659 Rome, a woman named Giulia Tofana received a secret warning. Tofana was wanted by the Papal Authorities. She fled her home for a nearby church, desperate and begging for sanctuary. Clergy could see she was afraid for her life, and agreed to shelter Tofana from the danger and violence outside. To shelter one of the most prolific female assassins in history, thought to have hundreds of accomplices. This is a story about the power of the humble apothecary, subterfuge, and a network of professional assassins. Mentioned: Women, Church and State (1893) - Matilda Joslyn Gage; Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Chapter 6, Aqua Tofana) - Mike Dash; History of Toxicology and Environmental Health (2017) Pages 63-69; https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04/06/aqua-tofana-slow-poisoning-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/
This week Keegan and Madigan give you another installment of our Forgotten Feminist Favorites to kick off women's history month! Keegan tells us about the Guatemalan activist Luisa Moreno, and Madigan tells the story of suffragette Matilda Joslyn Gage. Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on iTunes! Have a #SisterSolidarity Story you'd like to share? Email us at neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Find us on social media: Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist Twitter: @YANFPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist
Brainy thing: 20:25 Behind the Redwood Curtain: 32:27 What We’re Learning from Our Knitting: Margaret is exploring new approaches to knitted birds with Nicky Filakowska’s aptly named book Knitted Birds . These birds are knitted in pieces and then assembled and stuffed. Catherine is realizing the importance of gauge with a seemingly simple dishcloth pattern — the Quadrant dishcloth/washcloth by Jenny Konopinski https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/quadrant-dishcloth Brainy Thing: The Matilda Effect Women not only were prohibited from getting advanced education and entering fields like science and medicine; but also when they did, their work was often overlooked. Catherine introduces the phenomenon named after Matilda Joslyn Gage this week http://www.matildajoslyngage.org/ Women’s work, the first 20,000 years www.amazon.com/Womens-Work-First-Years-Society/dp/0393313484/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533162658&sr=1-1&keywords=women%27s+work+the+first+20+000+years Behind the Redwood Curtain: The Madaket We talk about touring Eureka from the Bay: Harbor Tours on the Madaket: https://www.humboldtbaymaritimemuseum.com/madaketmainpage.html Give Away: Don’t miss out on the Book Give Away. Links: Today on Teaching Your Brain to Knit we introduce the Matilda Effect —Overlooking Accomplishments of Women Scientists; Catherine searches for gauge on a simple but elegant dishcloth; Margaret learns techniques and discovers biases that are for the birds; She also shares information and experiences on two Madaket Harbor Cruises and we have another book giveaway.
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female. In 1863, they founded the Women's Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a women's rights newspaper called The Revolution. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women's movement. In 1890, the split was formally healed when their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with Anthony as its key force. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. The interests of Anthony and Stanton diverged somewhat in later years, but the two remained close friends. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial. Although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. Introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent, it later became known colloquially as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Anthony traveled extensively in support of women's suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns. She worked internationally for women's rights, playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women, which is still active. She also helped to bring about the World's Congress of Representative Women at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. When she first began campaigning for women's rights, Anthony was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime, however. Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. Information sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony Body sourced from https://youtu.be/FCl2BmbqCRM Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions Footage downloaded and edited by Jason at PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Links Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJb YouTube
QUOTING MATILDA: The Words and History of a Forgotten Suffragist by Susan Savion Though the names Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are well-known historical figures associated with women’s rights. However, when the name Matilda Joslyn Gage is mentioned, the usual response is, “Who?” Yet, this amazing woman contributed equally to the movement for women’s rights as part … Read more about this episode...
Este audio está dedicado a Egor Syrovoy. Muchas gracias por tu aportación amigo. Toca hablar de un director y para la ocasión os traigo al genio Surcoreano Kim Ki Duk. Os contaré cosas para que le conozcáis mejor, hablaremos de sus películas y de ese estilo tan peculiar e inconfundible que le convierte en un director único. En la sección “Giaccomic” nos enteraremos de todas la novedades de manos de Giacco de “Hello Friki” que además nos hablará del comic “Superman. American Alien”. Adelantamos una semana el comic de superhéroes porque tenemos una sorpresa preparada para la semana que viene. En la sección “El verso libre” retomo a mi adorado Joan Manuel Serrat y en esta ocasión lo hago con su canción “El Titiritero”, extraído de su álbum de 1969, “La Paloma”. Es una canción muy emocionante que espero os guste. En la sección “A golpes de realidad” os traemos un repaso de todo lo ocurrido en la actualidad social y política, empezando (una semana más) por desgracia con un nuevo asesinato machista. Finalmente en la sección “¿Qué fue de?” os hablo de una gran Dama, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Una activista norteamericana que lucho por el sufragio femenino, contra la esclavitud y a favor de los derechos de los nativos americanos. Tiempos: Sección principal: del 00:02:34 al 02:05:23 Sección “Giaccomic”: del 02:06:23 al 2:46:27 Sección “El verso libre: del 02:48:26 al 02:53:09 Sección “A golpes de realidad”: del 02:55:23 al 03:36:06 Sección “¿Qué fue de?”: del 03:37:49 al 04:25:18 Presentación, dirección, edición y montaje: Asier Menéndez Marín Colaborador: Giacco Diseño logo Podcast: Origami Tales (Anais Medina) Diseño logo Canal: Patrick Grau Si queréis formar parte del foro oficial de Facebook (secreto, solo con invitación) entrar en http://www.facebook.com/tobiasenmuth, nos podéis seguir en Twitter @Tobiasenmuth y si queréis estar al día de todo lo que sucede en el mundo del cine, visitar el blog http://tobiasenmuth.blog.com.es/ Nos hemos unido al #PodcastActionDay de @OxfamIntermon en apoyo a #derechoarefugio Entra y ayuda con tu firma http://bit.ly/PAD4REF2 Canal de nuestra musa, la youtuber Miare's Project: https://www.youtube.com/user/AchlysProject Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
After reporting on the success of FFRF's national ad featuring Ron Reagan on CNN, we announce FFRF victories stopping prayer and bible reading in public schools in Texas and Maryland. We celebrate the birthdays of nonbelievers Elton John, Stephen Sondheim, Keira Knightly, Richard Dawkins, and freethinking feminists Matilda Joslyn Gage and Gloria Steinem. Then we talk with journalist and author David Seidman about his new book, What If I'm an Atheist: A teen's guide to exploring a life without religion.
7/3/11 SUNDAY HOUR ONE 8-9 PM Eastern Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists, Book Publishing Company, 2001 A Time of Protest: Suffragists Challenge the Republic, Sky Carrier Press, 1998 Woman Church and State (Classics in Women's Studies) by Matilda Joslyn Gage, (foreward by Sally Roesch Wagner), Humanity Books, 2001 www.MatildaJoslynGage.org