Gallery One
Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Celebration Cheryl Speranza Leadership Institute Summer Enrichment program Arts and Culture. These photos are from Rochester Museum & Science Center docent roles. Youth actresses are sharing the lives of abolitionists and suffragists Harriet Tubman and Hester Jeffrey.
These youth studied primary resources to tell the life stories of Harriet Tubman and Hester Jeffrey and their contributions to the Greater Rochester Underground Railroad. AME Zion Church leaders and friends, both men and women, were at the center of the abolitionist movement with Susan B. Anthony as a suffrage collaborator.
Gallery Two
Sam Patch Canal Cruise picture that shows re-enactors portraying Harriet Tubman and Hester Jeffrey. Special thanks to Rashaad Parker of Rashaad Parker Media for most of these images.
Site Visits
Cheryl Speranza Leadership Institute Underground Railroad site visits include the Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church where abolitionists and suffragists Harriet Tubman, Hester Jeffrey, and Lucy Sprague were members. Here they started a local chaper of NACW. Site of Frederick Douglass North Star Newspaper. Another site visit was the Hester Jeffrey abolitionist and suffragist marker at the Memorial AME Zion Church, donated by Pomeroy Foundation. Students also visited Susan B. Anthony Square in Rochester, NY, where they saw the statue, Let’s Have Tea, which shows abolitionists Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in conversation.
Learning Opportunities
Cheryl Speranza Leadership Institute attend a youth film production class where students learned to operate the equipment and edit video.
Students also were able to hear a presentation by Carolyne Blount, About Time Magazine Editor, as a guest presenter. Ms. Blount spoke on African American Historic Women: Impact Today, and shared Rochester contributions of community activist Ellen Stubbs and the and international contributions of Katherine Johnson
RIT Crafting Resistance: Make and Take Peach Patches
These photos show scenes from a similar workshop as will take place at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) on October 8. Photo credit: A. Sue Weisler/RIT
Harriet Tubman – Her Legacy Continues, 10-25-22
City Art Space Panel
