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Statue of iconic suffragists in New York's Central Park makes history
Three iconic suffragists will be immortalized with a bronze statue in New York City’s Central Park to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment ratification, which gave women the right to vote.
The 14-foot statue titled the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument will be unveiled on Aug. 26, to honor the 19th Amendment, which Congress passed on June 4, 1919, and ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, after mass protests and “civil disobedience” during the women’s suffrage movement, according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The first monument honoring real women in Central Park was unveiled Wednesday –commemorating the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment'sratification and its certification.
"We have broken the bronze ceiling," Meredith Bergmann told USA TODAY Wednesday morning. Bergmann is the renowned sculptor who created the Women's Rights Pioneers Monument, which honors suffragists Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"It seems especially appropriate that today, on Women's Equality Day, we are unveiling a new statue in Central Park for the first time in over six decades: the first statue of real, nonfictional women, the first statue of an African American and significantly a statue that depicts three great Americans working together," former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in remarks at the event.
Like the women's suffrage movement, which culminated with the ratification of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, it was a long road for the all-volunteer nonprofit, Monumental Women, which ventured down a seven-year path with Bergmann to conceive, fund and create the monument.
"We are here to move history forward, and not even a pandemic can stop us," Pam Elam, president of the board of Monumental Women, said in her remarks.
Monumental Women raised $1.5 million in private funding, and local Girl Scouts troops donated proceeds of cookie sales.
Businesses such as insurance company New York Life contributed, as did individuals.
Sandra Pimentel, a resident of New York City, has been independently fundraising for a few years. During the pandemic, she started making masks to sell and contribute proceeds to the cause. The colors on the mask reflect those of the historical suffragist sashes.
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