Special Guest Brings Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Life

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the SSJ Women’s Leadership Program at Aquinas recently invited Dr. Melinda Grube to campus to speak to students about the founding of the Women’s Rights Movement. Dr. Grube, a history professor at Cayuga Community College and also a longtime interpreter of regional women’s-rights history, did not lecture though, instead, she told the story of the Women’s Rights Movement from the perspective of one of its founders – Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Shrouded in a black dress reminiscent of 1800s fashion, “Elizabeth” spoke to students about her life and work as a suffragist and freethinker, about her relationship with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, which she helped to organize. At the end of her presentation, students were able to ask “Elizabeth” questions about her life.

We’d like to thank Dr. Grube for spending the day at Aquinas and bringing the pages of history to life.