From the Did You Know.....? files - Soon after the statue of the three suffragists [Anthony, Stanton, Mott] was completed in 1921, opponents in an all-male Congress banished it and had its inscription, which lawmakers denounced as “blasphemous,” removed. It read: “Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned. It took seven decades before the rudely banished monument to three historic suffragists — Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott — was hauled up from the basement of the United States Capitol in 1997 and restored to its rightful place by the rotunda. Check the NWHM site and send your congress critters a letter (or Thank You letter) to get their support for a National Womens History Museum.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:44:52 +0000
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