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niyad

(126,375 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:39 PM Saturday

A statue of women's rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton



A statue of women’s 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 women’s rights movement. None of the woman lived long enough to see American women gain the right to vote. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
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A statue of women's rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Original Post) niyad Saturday OP
There should be NYPD popsdenver Saturday #1
Soon to be removed by the Trump Regime FoggyLake Saturday #2
No doubt. And all the rightwank "erasing history" fartbabblers will suddenly have no opinion. Grokenstein Saturday #5
We wouldn't want to go make some white guys have feelings Maru Kitteh Saturday #8
Thanks so much for sharing this, niyad. ... littlemissmartypants Saturday #3
"" AllaN01Bear Saturday #4
im still fighting for this !!!!! AllaN01Bear Saturday #6
I love this! It is wonderful! CTyankee Saturday #7
Great idea Farmer-Rick Saturday #9
Could you please post that image? As its own OP for greater visibility niyad Saturday #14
pic Celerity Saturday #21
Thank you! niyad Saturday #23
In looking up a photo of the statue you mentioned, I learned that there niyad Saturday #15
Powerful Joinfortmill Saturday #10
That's great but a shame the artist felt the need to portray SBA and ECS as younger and thinner meadowlander Saturday #11
It also depends on the time period. In 1848, at Seneca Falls, ECS was 33, niyad Saturday #16
Yes, but the artist made a choice about which time period they depicted and that was the point of my post. meadowlander Saturday #19
The statue shows the 3 women as mature and middle aged, not as hot babes. They were in the fight forever. Hekate Saturday #18
and will the era et tu Saturday #12
Don't hold your breath. niyad Saturday #17
It's lovely... WarGamer Saturday #13
It is really a beatiful piece of art IMHO. riversedge Saturday #20
It truly is. niyad Saturday #22
As an NYC'r I wondered if it would be this one. 👍 electric_blue68 Saturday #24
If there are other statues in NY honouring the suffrage activists, it would niyad Saturday #25
There's the one in DC at the Women's War Memorial. llmart Sunday #26
Could you post the image for us? niyad Sunday #33
Damn, I was just there in July and missed it Polybius Sunday #27
We will expect a full report! niyad Sunday #32
Beautiful! Jean Genie Sunday #28
That would be wonderful! niyad Sunday #30
Glad its in Central Park Figarosmom Sunday #29
Yes! niyad Sunday #31
These three women knew each other, and the relationships were complex.. Permanut Sunday #34
They were indeed! niyad Sunday #35

popsdenver

(292 posts)
1. There should be NYPD
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:53 PM
Saturday

armed guards around that statue 24/7 when Trump sends in his Gestapo...............

Grokenstein

(6,125 posts)
5. No doubt. And all the rightwank "erasing history" fartbabblers will suddenly have no opinion.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:08 PM
Saturday

Just smirks.

littlemissmartypants

(29,118 posts)
3. Thanks so much for sharing this, niyad. ...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:53 PM
Saturday

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. ❤️

Farmer-Rick

(11,954 posts)
9. Great idea
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:34 PM
Saturday

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)
14. Could you please post that image? As its own OP for greater visibility
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:50 PM
Saturday

would be wonderful.

niyad

(126,375 posts)
15. In looking up a photo of the statue you mentioned, I learned that there
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:00 PM
Saturday

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).

meadowlander

(4,956 posts)
11. That's great but a shame the artist felt the need to portray SBA and ECS as younger and thinner
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:44 PM
Saturday


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)
16. It also depends on the time period. In 1848, at Seneca Falls, ECS was 33,
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:09 PM
Saturday

and SBA 28. They did not always look like the photo you posted.

meadowlander

(4,956 posts)
19. Yes, but the artist made a choice about which time period they depicted and that was the point of my post.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:43 PM
Saturday

Hekate

(99,054 posts)
18. The statue shows the 3 women as mature and middle aged, not as hot babes. They were in the fight forever.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:42 PM
Saturday

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.”

niyad

(126,375 posts)
25. If there are other statues in NY honouring the suffrage activists, it would
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:37 PM
Saturday

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)
26. There's the one in DC at the Women's War Memorial.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 11:35 AM
Sunday

Unless Malaria and her ugly spouse tore it down already.

Polybius

(20,728 posts)
27. Damn, I was just there in July and missed it
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 11:38 AM
Sunday

I have to go again soon. I will be sure to check it out next time I go.

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