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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.

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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
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