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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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

#SalonsatStowe: Has Racial Inequality Reached the Tipping Point?



Join us tomorrow, Thursday, January 22nd, for our first Salon of 2015. Has Racial Inequality Reached the Tipping Point? will feature Rev. Henry Brown, Founder of Mothers United Against Violence, Henrietta Beckman, President of Mothers United Against Violence, and Aswad Thomas, a student activist and Founder of Hartford Action.  

The Salon will feature discussion on the ways in which racial inequality has manifested in social and political contexts in the U.S., with a focus on what one can do to combat inequities and promote racial justice.    

Doors open at 5:00 pm for refreshments and the discussion begins at 5:30 pm!

See you there!
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