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

[niyad]

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)

[popsdenver]

1. There should be NYPD

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

[FoggyLake]

2. Soon to be removed by the Trump Regime

[Grokenstein]

5. No doubt. And all the rightwank "erasing history" fartbabblers will suddenly have no opinion.

Just smirks.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. We wouldn't want to go make some white guys have feelings

they don’t handle it well.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Thanks so much for sharing this, niyad. ...

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]

4. ""

[AllaN01Bear]

6. im still fighting for this !!!!!

[CTyankee]

7. I love this! It is wonderful!

Thanks so much! It gave me a much needed lift today...

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Great idea

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]

14. Could you please post that image? As its own OP for greater visibility

would be wonderful.

[Celerity]

21. pic

[niyad]

23. Thank you!

[niyad]

15. In looking up a photo of the statue you mentioned, I learned that there

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]

10. Powerful

[meadowlander]

11. That's great but a shame the artist felt the need to portray SBA and ECS as younger and thinner

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]

16. It also depends on the time period. In 1848, at Seneca Falls, ECS was 33,

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

[meadowlander]

19. Yes, but the artist made a choice about which time period they depicted and that was the point of my post.

[Hekate]

18. The statue shows the 3 women as mature and middle aged, not as hot babes. They were in the fight forever.

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]

12. and will the era

ever be passed in our lifetime????

[niyad]

17. Don't hold your breath.

[WarGamer]

13. It's lovely...

[riversedge]

20. It is really a beatiful piece of art IMHO.

[niyad]

22. It truly is.

[electric_blue68]

24. As an NYC'r I wondered if it would be this one. 👍

[niyad]

25. If there are other statues in NY honouring the suffrage activists, it would

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]

26. There's the one in DC at the Women's War Memorial.

Unless Malaria and her ugly spouse tore it down already.

[niyad]

33. Could you post the image for us?

[Polybius]

27. Damn, I was just there in July and missed it

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

[niyad]

32. We will expect a full report!

[Jean Genie]

28. Beautiful!

Any chance there will be smaller "coffee table" versions? I'd love to have one!

[niyad]

30. That would be wonderful!

[Figarosmom]

29. Glad its in Central Park

And not somewhere that trump can destroy it.

[niyad]

31. Yes!

[Permanut]

34. These three women knew each other, and the relationships were complex..

and fascinating.

[niyad]

35. They were indeed!