Rochester NOW Chapter Celebrates Women's History Month

Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her Into History
March 15, 7:00 PM
First Unitarian Church
220 Winton Rd S
Rochester, NY 14610-2956
A Rochester NOW Women's History Month Program
Free and Open to the public

A lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner

The "forgotten feminist," Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) harbored fugitive slaves, was an adopted Native American, influenced "Oz," and worked for the separation of church and state.

Although she was considered equally important as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (they were called the "triumvirate of the movement"), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1828 - 1898) has been all but written out of history. Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the foremost authority on Gage, enlightens us about this amazing women "lost from history," who offered her Fayetteville, New York home as a station on the Underground Railroad, was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, edited a newspaper, encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to write his "Oz" stories, and worked for the separation of church and state.

Dr. Wagner will also share information about the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, of which she is the founder and Executive Director. Formed seven years ago to bring this important suffragist to her rightful place in history, the Gage Foundation operates out of Gage's Fayetteville home.

For further information about this event, please call 585-723-1062 or visit www.rochesterNOW.org

This program is free and opens to the public, and made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities' Speakers in the Humanities program