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Central Park Women’s Rights Statue Unveiling Date Set

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Rendering of the statue to be built in New Yorks Central ParkMonumental Women has set a date for the unveiling of the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument on the Mall in the City of New York’s Central Park. The statue is the first statue depicting a real woman in the Park’s 167-year History.

The original statue of women’s rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was redesigned to include Sojourner Truth after criticism that the original design excluded the contributions of people of color. It’s being sculpted by Meredith Bergmann. [Read more…] about Central Park Women’s Rights Statue Unveiling Date Set

Vintage Tweets: A Book of Suffrage Era Postcards

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Vintage TweetsCarol Crossed’s new book Vintage Tweets: Suffrage Era Postcards is a 216-page coffee table book, self published in 2019, which contains 400 high quality images of 100+ year old postcards from the author’s own private collection.

This book was released in conjunction with the opening of the National Woman Suffrage Centennial at a book signing in Seneca Falls. The Centennial marked the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, granting women the right to vote. [Read more…] about Vintage Tweets: A Book of Suffrage Era Postcards

Susan B Anthony On Trial

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Ontario County Courthouse in CanandaiguaSusan B. Anthony was charged for having cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872, accused of violating federal law and the NYS Constitution. Suffragists had been stunned and angered at women’s exclusion from the 15th Amendment which had given black men the right to vote in 1870. [Read more…] about Susan B Anthony On Trial

Redesigned Women’s Suffrage Statue Approved For Central Park

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Rendering of the statue to be built in New Yorks Central Park

The New York City Public Design Commission has approved the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument placement in Central Park.  The statue of women’s rights pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, will be the first statue depicting real women in the 165-year history of the park.

The statue was redesigned to include Sojourner Truth after criticism that the original design excluded the contributions of people of color. It’s being sculpted by Meredith Bergmann.

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Women’s Rights Alliance Conference Nov 1-2

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Womens Rights and Justice in New York State Past and Present conferenceThe Women’s Rights Alliance of New York State Inc. has announced the agenda for it’s upcoming Women’s Rights and Justice in New York State, Past and Present Conference, set for November 1st and 2nd, in Syracuse.

The conference will include 15 presentations and 43 presenters, all representing programs produced in preparation for the 2020 women’s suffrage 100th anniversary celebration for women’s right to vote in the United States. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Alliance Conference Nov 1-2

Central Park Statue Redesigned To Include Sojouner Truth

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The Monumental Women’s Statue Fund announced a redesigned statue to honor pioneering women’s rights advocates – the first statue depicting real women in the 165-year history of New York City’s Central Park.

The redesign comes on the heals of criticism that the original design excluded the contributions of people of color.

The amended design, which still includes Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but now adds Sojourner Truth, is expected to be released on Women’s Equality Day, August 26th. [Read more…] about Central Park Statue Redesigned To Include Sojouner Truth

Women’s Rights Convention Days July 19-21

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Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) has announced that Convention Days 2019 have been set for July 19–21 from 9 am to 5 pm, each day.

The Convention Day theme “Back to our Roots,” focuses on the early days of the Women’s Rights Movement. The program explores the early movement, its leaders and the impact those roots continue to have on women’s rights today. This year’s event sets the scene for the upcoming 2020 centennial of women’s right to vote ratified with the 19th Amendment in 1920. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Convention Days July 19-21

Viewpoint: Rethink The Planned Central Park Suffrage Statue

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Frances Ellen Watkins HarperIn May 1866, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a leading African American poet, lecturer and civil right activist, addressed the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention in New York City. Other speakers included white suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born to free parents in Baltimore during slavery days. She became a teacher, writer, speaker at abolitionist rallies, and worked with the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad. She was a co-founder and vice president of the National Association of Colored Women and a member of the American Women’s Suffrage Association. [Read more…] about Viewpoint: Rethink The Planned Central Park Suffrage Statue

New Book: Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn Gage

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The Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn GageMary E. Corey’s new book Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn Gage (Paramount Market Publishing, Inc, 2019), looks at the life of advocate, activist, intellectual, and leader, Matilda Joslyn Gage.

From her first convention speech in 1852 to the publication of her magnum opus, Woman, Church and State, her speeches, writings, and advocacy were and remain an education in women’s history. Gage’s greatest contribution to the women’s movement rests on her scholarship, based on careful research, well documented and written in the best scholarly manner of its time. [Read more…] about New Book: Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn Gage