Salons at Stowe: The Activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker TODAY at 12:00pm at the Old State House

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.

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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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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The Activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker TODAY at 12:00pm at the Old State House

Join Connecticut's Old State House and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for "The Activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker" with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Susan Campbell. Following her talk, Susan will participate in a discussion on the impact and legacy of Isabella's work with Stowe Center Director of Education Shannon Burke and Teresa Younger, Executive Director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.

The Activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker

w/ Pulitzer Prize winning author Susan Campbell

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 12:00 pm

Pulitzer Prize winning author Susan

Susan Campbell

Photo by Chion Wolf/WNPR

Campbell joins us for our next installment of Conversations at Connecticut's Old State House. She will be discussing her new biography, Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker, which focuses on the "other" Beecher who bravely paved the way for women's rights in the U.S.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's younger half-sister, Isabella Beecher Hooker, helped organize the National Woman Suffrage Association and fought for the passage of an 1877 Connecticut law that gave married women the same property rights as their husbands.

Following Ms. Campbell's talk, join in a discussion about Isabella Beecher Hooker's impact and the status of women's rights today with CT-N's Diane Smith, Shannon Burke, Director of Education of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, and Teresa Younger, Executive Director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.

This event is co-sponsored with the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. The event starts at noon and will last one hour. Bring your lunch and enjoy the program! Registrations for this free program are encouraged but not required. Register here.

Funding provided by Connecticut Humanities

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