Creating Inclusive Curricula: Strategies for Incorporating Black and Latinx Studies in the Classroom—Teacher Workshop

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Creating Inclusive Curricula: Strategies for Incorporating Black and Latinx Studies in the Classroom

Teacher Workshop

November 14, 2019

Join us for an interactive workshop designed to help educators center the contributions of African, African-American, Puerto Rican, and Latinx individuals when teaching U.S. history. Local educators and experts—including State Representative Bobby Gibson and CT Explored publisher Elizabeth Normen—will help identify specific primary source materials, resources, and strategies for middle- and high-school students. Registration required.

Location Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / Visitor Center / 77 Forest Street, Hartford

Doors Open 3:30 PM Refreshments

Program 4-5:30 PM Workshop

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.