A Celebration of Stellar Women
February 11, 2015 – Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center

CELEBRATING SUSAN B. ANTHONY!

Annually our membership is encouraged to support the Susan B. Anthony Luncheon. The theme this year is A Celebration of Stellar Women on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. The AAUW is supporting this event with a table of 10. Right now, we have already one full table. Let’s see if we can make it 2 tables of 10!

We know Anthony as a Womens’ Rights Activist and that she dedicated her life to the suffrage movement. She was responsible for women having the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Anthony, a Quaker, was also active in the antislavery movement.

In honor of her work in this movement, I would be remiss not to include her remarks since it is Black History Month.

Anthony on Harriet Tubman:

The most wonderful woman Harriet Tubman is still alive. I saw her the other day at the beautiful home of Elizo Wright Osborne — the daughter of Martha C. Wright — in company with Elizabeth Smith Miller — the only daughter of Gerrit Smith, Miss Emily Howland — Rev. Ames H. Thaw — and Miss Ella Wright Garrison — the daughter of Martha C Wright and the wife of Wm Lloyd Garrison Jr. all were visiting at Mrs. Osbornes — a real love feast of the few that are left — and here came Harriet Tubman!

Susan B. Anthony
17 Madison St.
Rochester, New York
Anthony on Sojourner Truth at the
National Convention of Rights Association,
May 10, 1867

Miss Anthony announced that they would have another opportunity to hear Sojourner Truth and of those who need not know, she would say that Sojourner Truth was a slave in this state. She is not a product of the barbarism of South Carolina but the barbarism of New York and one of her fingers was chopped off by a cruel master in a moment of anger.

Keynote Speaker: Lynn Sherr
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author Lynn Sherr is a perfect candidate to speak on this year’s luncheon theme. Her most recent work, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space, aptly illustrates the wonderful legacy of Susan B. Anthony.