Upcoming Events
This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Ernestine Rose, an important time to recognize and honor Rose’s contributions to women’s rights and suffrage, Abolition of U.S. slavery and religious freethought.
Watch for celebrations of Rose’s 200th birthday, and recognition of activists of the past, present and future. Events are being scheduled throughout the U.S. in 2010.
Interested in participating? Email pdoress@brandeis.edu.
A Feminist Pioneer
The mission of the Ernestine Rose Society is to revive the legacy of this important early 19th-century reformer by recognizing her pioneering role in the first wave of feminism.
Susan B. Anthony recognized Ernestine Rose as one of the three foremothers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in the United States: "Mary Wollstonecraft and then Frances Wright and Ernestine Rose...All spoke about women's rights before Lucretia Mott, Stanton and others."
Anthony kept a large photo of Rose on the wall of her study and described her as "that noble worker for the cause of women's rights."
Anthony and Rose most likely first met in 1852 when Anthony attended her first Woman's Rights Convention. At the time, Rose had been advocating for women's rights in the United States since 1836.
Read excerpts from Rose's speeches on women's rights issues (many of which still remain relevant). Also, read her stirring address to the second National Women's Rights Conference in 1851.