Black Suffragists Lecture
April 18, 2016
Race remains one of the most important issues American society confronts today. On Monday, April 18, 2016, Dr. Susan Goodier is coming to SUNY Orange to present a lecture at 7:00pm, entitled Centering Black Women: Race in the Woman Suffrage Movement. The event, which will take place in the Orange County Trust Company Great Room 101at Kaplan Hall, is free and open to the public and is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program.
In this year of a presidential election followed by the 2017 centennial of women voting in New York State, Goodier’s presentation is pertinent as it addresses the women’s suffrage movement and the place of women of color in that movement. Voting rights were as vital to black women as to white women, but knowledge of their activism is scant. Today, it is important to learn the stories and points of view of black women suffragists. Doing so allows the use of race and the suffrage story to examine the phenomenon of race within the framework of an historical movement, while at the same time, offering more broadly a microcosm of racism in the culture. As diverse audiences participate in the recovering of knowledge of this women’s suffrage activism, their awareness could offer another pathway to understanding the complex race issues of today.
Susan Goodier, a scholar who focuses on U.S. women’s activism from the period of the Civil War through the First World War, is coordinator for the Upstate New York Women’s History Organization. She serves as book review editor for the New York History journal. She authored
No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement. Her current book project on the New York State Woman Suffrage Movement, co-authored with Karen Pastorello, is entitled ‘The Very Greatest Victory': Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State. Goodier holds master’s degrees in Gender History and Women’s Studies, and a PhD in Public Policy History, with subfields in International Gender and Culture and Black Women’s History from SUNY Albany. She teaches New York State and Women’s History courses at SUNY Oneonta.
For more information, send an email to [email protected], call (845) 341-9386, or check out the SUNY Orange website at: www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs. Kaplan Hall is located at the corner of Grand and First Streets, Newburgh. Free and secure parking is available in the Kaplan Hall garage accessible at 73 First Street.
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