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A statue of womens rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was unveiled on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 2020, in New York City Central Park. Artist Meredith Bergmann, a lifelong New Yorker, sculpted the statue of three of the main figures in the womens rights movement. None of the woman lived long enough to see American women gain the right to vote. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

popsdenver
(292 posts)armed guards around that statue 24/7 when Trump sends in his Gestapo...............
FoggyLake
(294 posts)Grokenstein
(6,125 posts)Just smirks.
Maru Kitteh
(30,505 posts)they dont handle it well.
littlemissmartypants
(29,118 posts)It's a great reminder to persist. We may not see the results of our fights in this lifetime, but the constant hope that others will be rewarded eventually is sustained.
We will never have too many strong women to admire, emulate and honor. This is beautiful.
Thank you. ❤️



AllaN01Bear
(27,185 posts)CTyankee
(66,896 posts)Thanks so much! It gave me a much needed lift today...
Farmer-Rick
(11,954 posts)But TN, yes that right wing controlled southern state, honors women's right to vote with a life-size statue of their own.
The life size bronze statue commemorates Lizzie Crozier French, Anne Dallas Dudley, and Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, in Knoxville, Tennessee pioneering suffragists who fought for passage of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920.
There are also some very cool inscriptions on the base of the statue. One is:
"All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort alone, and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood."
TN is onboard to honor women's rights to vote Despite the f*cking idiots who want to go backwards into the 1918s.
niyad
(126,375 posts)would be wonderful.


niyad
(126,375 posts)niyad
(126,375 posts)is another TN Woman Suffrage Monument in Nashville, of five women. .that you named, and also Frankie Pierce, Sue White, and Carrie Chapman Catt (not from TN, but there for the final batttle).
Joinfortmill
(18,727 posts)meadowlander
(4,956 posts)
because God forbid heroines be old or fat. If we have to have feminist icons in public places let's at least use the hottest versions of them that we can find.
niyad
(126,375 posts)and SBA 28. They did not always look like the photo you posted.
meadowlander
(4,956 posts)Hekate
(99,054 posts)When Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed, someone mentioned making a statue of her. My desire is that if such were to come into being, that it would depict her as middle aged in her full strength as an accomplished warrior for justice. Justice, justice, shall you pursue.
et tu
(2,386 posts)ever be passed in our lifetime????
niyad
(126,375 posts)WarGamer
(17,716 posts)riversedge
(77,313 posts)niyad
(126,375 posts)electric_blue68
(23,446 posts)niyad
(126,375 posts)be wonderful if you could post the images.
Actually, if there are any statues honouring women, apart frim Lady Liberty, we would love it if you could share.
llmart
(16,731 posts)Unless Malaria and her ugly spouse tore it down already.
niyad
(126,375 posts)Polybius
(20,728 posts)I have to go again soon. I will be sure to check it out next time I go.
niyad
(126,375 posts)Jean Genie
(519 posts)Any chance there will be smaller "coffee table" versions? I'd love to have one!
niyad
(126,375 posts)Figarosmom
(7,950 posts)And not somewhere that trump can destroy it.
Permanut
(7,503 posts)and fascinating.