Kingston: Talk on the 19th century activist Matilda Joslyn Gage
Date : 21 February 2010
From : 2:00pm
Category : General / Misc
Location : 12401
Event Description :
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, a well known lecturer on women's rights, will discuss the life of Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898).
From the organizers:"Although she was considered as important as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (they were called the 'triumvirate of the movement'), Gage has been all but forgotten by history."
Wagner, an authority on Gage, details how the historical figure offered her Fayetteville, N.Y., home as a station on the Underground Railroad, was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, edited a newspaper, encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to write his "Oz" stories, offered civil disobedience when she tried (illegally) to vote, and worked for the separation of church and state.
Cost: Free.
Location:
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills
320 Sawkill Rd
Kingston/Town of Ulster, NY 12401
(halfway between Washington Ave and Rt 209) Map and directions: maps.google.com...
Events, actions, and organizations represented on this sitedo not necessarily represent the views or methods of the site's editors.ActivistResource.org does not endorse any particular event or organization,but merely provides a venue for the dissemination of information that appears to be activist in nature,and might not be welcome on mass media calendars.
Have events emailed to you!
