Stowe Prize 2021

Special Events

Stowe Prize 2021

September 23, 2021

An exclusive look inside the Stowe Collections

with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is delighted to honor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as the 2021 Stowe Prize winner. Dr. Glaude receives the award for Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Crown Publishing Group, 2020), a book that uses the life of James Baldwin to create dialogue about racial inequality currently in the United States. This year’s events will be virtual.

The award will be presented on Thursday, September 23, along with a rare look into the Stowe Center Collections with Dr. Glaude, UConn Professor Jeffrey Ogbar, and Director of Collections and Research Beth Burgess. The group will discuss artifacts from the Stowe Center’s nationally-significant collection that link to Baldwin’s and Glaude’s work, as well as issues of race history, historic racism, and the fight for racial equity today.

Two exclusive audio conversations featuring Dr. Glaude with special guests Reverend Dr. John Selders and Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin are currently available in the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Multimedia Gallery.

Registration for the live streamed program and more is available here.

Registration for the live streamed program only is available here.

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Location The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/77 Forest St./Hartford, CT 06105

Doors Open 6:45 pm

Program 6:45-8:00 pm

School Group Interest Form

School Group Interest Form 2023

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Group Tour Interest Form 2022

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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.