Sally is a longtime feminist and women's studies professor, and since 2001, the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation. In the summer of 1984, after a performance as part of history events in Seneca Falls, she visited the peace camp in character and costume as Matilda Joslyn Gage, the 19th-century radical feminist (look her up!). Sally, as Matilda, committed civil disobedience at the Seneca Army Depot in honor of her newly born grandson.
CLIP 1: What would Matilda Joslyn Gage do?
CLIP 2: This isn't real fear
Interview: Sally Roesch Wagner
Date: June 1, 2008
Location: Syracuse, NY
Present: Estelle Coleman, hershe Michele Kramer
MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE & HER 20TH CENTURY DAUGHTERS
Photographs by Nancy Clover
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| Encampment women gather in support of Matilda as she prepares to approach the Seneca Army Depot main gate, July 22, 1984. |
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| Crossing Route 96. |
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| Finding the gate open, Matilda walks through and greets the guard. "I would like to know if there are nuclear weapons stored here," she asks. The guard ushers her out. |
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| She ushers herself back in. |
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| "I would like an answer," she says. |
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| He radios for back-up. |
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| The two guards escort her back out... |
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| ...and shut and lock the gate. "That's enough of that," they say. |
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| Not quite. |
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| "I need some back-up!" yells the guard. |
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| Sisters and daughters sing their support. |
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| "For my grandson," Sally thinks... |
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| ...as Matilda is handcuffed... |
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| ...and led to the waiting police van. |
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| Sally aka Matilda's official letter from the Department of Defense. "...predicated upon your misconduct, you are barred from this installation for an indefinite period of time." |
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