Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

The Stowe Center is a 21st-century museum and program center using Stowe's story to inspire social justice and positive change.

The Salons at Stowe programs are a forum to connect the challenging issues (race, gender and class) that impelled Stowe to write and act with the contemporary face of those same issues. The Salon format is based on a robust level of audience participation, with the explicit goal of promoting civic engagement. Recent topics included: Teaching Acceptance; Is Prison the New Slavery; Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Creativity and Change; Race, Gender and Politics Today; How to be an Advocate

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

"Human rights are women's rights & women's rights are human rights, once & for all."

On Saturday, the Clinton Foundation tweeted a quote from Hillary Clinton:


Clinton's quote was in reference to No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, her new program at the Clinton Foundation to bring together partner organizations to evaluate and share the progress women and girls have made in the 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This new effort will help chart the path forward to accelerate full participation for women and girls in the 21st century. The full participation of women and girls is critical to global progress, development, and security. The program was launched on November 1, 2013.



Be sure to check out the website for No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, sign up to follow the progress of the program and reflect on Clinton's quote - what are your reactions to her statement? Will you get involved with "No Ceilings"? Share your thoughts in the "Comments" section below.
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