Bringing Women's Rights History to Life
2020 is the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment. It took 72 years from the 1st Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls to the passing of the 19th Amendment. Neither Elizabeth Cady Stanton nor Susan B. Anthony lived to see this day, but their work laid the foundations to make it happen.
Find out more about the Centennial here.
Locally at the New York Historical Society – they are launching a new exhibit, Women March
“For as long as there has been a United States, women have organized to shape the nation’s politics and secure their rights as citizens. Their collective action has taken many forms, from abolitionist petitions to industry-wide garment strikes to massive marches for an Equal Rights Amendment. Women March celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment—which granted women the right to vote in 1920—as it explores the efforts of a wide range of women to expand American democracy in the centuries before and after the suffrage victory. On view in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, this immersive exhibition features imagery and video footage of women’s collective action over time, drawing visitors into a visceral engagement with the struggles that have endured into the 21st century. (Curated by Valerie Paley, senior vice president, chief historian, and director of the Center for Women’s History, and the Center for Women’s History curatorial team)“
Around the country, the New York Times has put together a list of places you can visit both in upstate New York where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony lived to farther south and west.
Monumental Women, a not for profit, focused on “breaking the bronze ceiling and creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 166-year history” will unveil the first project on August 26, 2020. The work is a sculpture of women’s rights leaders, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The sculptor is Meredith Bergmann.
In addition to the Central Park statue, Monumental Women is pushing for the creation of a New York City Women’s Rights Trail throughout all five boroughs.
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