Racism & White Supremacy: Charlottesville One-Year Anniversary

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Racism & White Supremacy

Charlottesville One-Year Anniversary

August 8, 2018

Both of this year’s Student Stowe Prize winners chose to write about racially-charged events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Meet college winner Wes Gobar and high school winner Zyahna Bryant on Stowe Prize Day, September 5, 2018. Today’s Salon topic honors their impressive writing and impact.

On August 12, 2018, the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville erupted into violence that left one person dead and more than 40 injured.

These events focused national attention on white supremacy and prompted debate over how “surprising” we ought to find them and where they fit in the history of racial violence and intimidation in America.

One year later, as the same groups organize to march again, join us to discuss what has and has not changed in the last 12 months and what these events – and the responses to them – tell us about American society.

Suggested Reading

What it’s like to be a Black student as white supremacists march in your college town by 2018 Student Stowe Prize college winner Wes Gobar

Change the name of Lee Park and Remove the Statue
by 2018 Student Stowe Prize high school winner Zyahna Bryant

Charlottesville’s Divides Are America’s Divides

‘Unite the Right’ anniversary: White nationalists planning to rally in D.C.

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.