Susan
B. Anthony speaks on the rights of women during interview at Lincoln
Heritage Museum
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[March 09, 2017]
LINCOLN
- The Lincoln Heritage Museum recently opened a new exhibit entitled
“Lovers of Liberty, Take Courage.” In order to highlight the theme
of personnel courage, the Museum has begun a series of interviews of
nineteenth century figures who exhibited courage in the face of
hostile and entrenched attitudes of the general populace. The first
of these interviews was held at the museum on Saturday. The person
featured was Susan B. Anthony.
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Susan B. Anthony was an icon of the nineteenth century suffragist
movement, women who demanded equal status with men with the right to
vote as their primary impetus. Miss Anthony’s courage in the face of
threats and derision from the male power structure of the 19th
century makes her an appropriate figure to start off the series of
interviews.
Along with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
toured the country speaking out about the unfair treatment of women.
Women were not allowed to vote or own property and were in every way
treated as inferiors by the male population. In essence, they were
not treated as citizens of the United States.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2016/Aug/26/images/ads/current/ldn_sda_062409.png) Jean Gossett served as moderator for the interview. “I wanted to
model my interview after the television program ‘You are there’ that
was popular in the early days of television entertainment. The
program was moderated by Walter Cronkite and brought historic
figures to a national audience in an interview format,” said
Gossett. The historic figures for the program were portrayed by many
of the greatest actors during this time.
Anne Moseley, Assistant Director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum,
portrayed Miss Anthony complete with attire appropriate to the era.
Moseley is a Certified Interpretive Guide and Trainer with a focus
on living history. She remained in the first person during the
interview, meaning that her responses were in character as the
person she portrayed.
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In this case, Moseley portrayed Susan B. Anthony as a real person
whose only frame of reference was mid-19th century America. When she
was sometimes asked questions that contained a more modern
reference, she appeared stumped and could not respond. “My goal is
to make my audience remember that these were real people living in
historic America dealing with events that were contemporary with
their real lives. I want to bring history forward to our time, and
give insight into the life of this courageous person,” said Anne
Moseley.
The Lincoln Heritage Museum plans two more interviews with
courageous persons from the 19th century to accentuate the new
display “Lovers of Liberty, Take Courage.” The next will be Civil
War General Ulysses S. Grant. The series will end with Noah Brooks,
a journalist and friend of President Lincoln.
[Curtis Fox]
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