WGST-290: American Women's and Gender History: Carroll: Rochester Area Organizations

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York, was the home of the legendary American civil rights leader, and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. This home was the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she was its president. This is also where she died in 1906 at age 86, following her “Failure is Impossible” speech in Baltimore.

• Monday Lecture Series
• Susan B. Anthony Historic Speeches
• SBA Timeline
• Susan B Anthony House photo gallery
• @susanbhouse
• #susanbhouse

On October 13th, 2018, the National Women’s Hall of Fame celebrated its 50th anniversary. Founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1969. The National Women’s Hall of Fame is the nation’s oldest membership organization dedicated to honoring and celebrating the achievements of distinguished American women. The Hall uses the stories of its Inductees as tools for inspiration, innovation and imagination. Seneca Falls is less than an hours drive east of RIT.

• Women of the Hall

• Get their newsletter

• Oral History: Voices of Great Women

• National Women's History Alliance
• Play solitaire: Women's Hall of Fame deck!

The League of Women Voters was founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920, just six months before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote after a 72-year struggle.

• Local League Newsletters
• Voter Services
• Who represents you?
• League youtube channel
• League's book club
• Calendar

Rochester Voices is an online resource from the collection of the Local History & Genealogy Division of the Rochester Public Library; it offers the study of local, state, national, and global history, by exploring the stories of Rochesterians who experienced the past first-hand.

• Women's Rights--Explore the history of the movement for women's rights as it unfolded in Rochester and in the nation.

• Collections: Susan B. Anthony Letters

• Collections: Kate Gleason Letters

• Collections: Irene Marion Conole

• Exhibits: Suffrage & the Flower City

• Timeline: Women's Rights

"Mount Hope is more than a cemetery. It’s where Rochester’s history is celebrated!

The final resting place of an eminent human rights leader, a tireless advocate for women’s rights, a media mogul, an influential landscape architect, an innovative poet, and tens of thousands of people who shaped Rochester’s past as well as that of the country."

• Susan B. Anthony 
• Adelaide Crapsey
• Frederick Douglass 
• Anna Murray-Douglass 
• Amy and Isaac Post 
• Margaret Woodbury Strong 
• Lillian Wald 

With almost 200 acres of land, Mount Hope is an active municipal cemetery that also serves as a park, arboretum and historic resource. 

Tours, walks and special events:

• The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Tours

• Visiting

• News