Salons at Stowe: Telling Our Nation’s Story #3

Salons at Stowe

Salons at Stowe: Telling Our Nation's Story #3

Women and Democratic Citizenship

January 27, 2022

Our Common Purpose and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center proudly present Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs, author of The Three Mothers, in conversation with Janée Woods Weber, Executive Director of Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (CWEALF). Dr. Tubbs’s extensive research on activist mothers from the civil rights movement and beyond adds scope and dimension to CWEALF’s longstanding advocacy for women’s rights and opportunities in Connecticut. A relaxed format discussion centered on the empowerment of women and girls, especially those who are underserved or marginalized, our third salon program informs and inspires and will encourage audience participation.

Anna Malaika Tubbs is a multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, Anna earned her MA in gender studies and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is joined by Janée Woods Weber, an activist, advocate, facilitator and trainer for social justice issues, and the Executive Director of CWEALF, who previously served as Program Director at Everyday Democracy, a national nonprofit in Hartford that helps communities across the country create action around important issues such as food security, community prosperity, immigration, education, and undoing racism.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center presents three salons this season intended to explore the ways in which the Telling Our Nation’s Story initiative can engage communities throughout the country in direct, open-ended, and inclusive conversations about the complex and always evolving American story. Jonathan Cohen, Joan and Irwin Jacobs Program Officer for American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will introduce the program and the broader implications and recommendations of Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21^st Century.

This is a free, virtual event. Registration is open.

Thank you to the George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, for helping to make this program possible.

Location Virtual

Doors Open 7:00 PM

Program 7:00-8:15 PM

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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.