National Women’s Suffrage Monument

Every Word We Utter

We need your help to build a monument in our Nation’s Capital that honors the work of the brave women who fought for all citizens.

Ida B Wells

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*Protector of the idea
of motherhood and activism

*Civil Rights

*Anti-lynching

*Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Harriett Stanton Blatch

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*Founder of The Equality League

of Self Supporting Women

*Organized labor activists

*Women’s rights to wealth and distinction.

*United women of all classes

Alice Paul

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*Rights to profitable employment

and fair wage

*Lobbied congress

*Organized pickets and marches

*Endurance to a cause

Sorjourner Truth

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*Civil and women’s rights

*Outspoken advocate for abolition

*First Black woman to win a case in court against a white man

*Advocated for the Freedman for education and against incarceration

*Desegregation of streetcars

Susan B Anthony

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*Rights to voice her ideals
on the formation of laws

*Rights to education

*Exercise her inalienable right as a citizen

of the United States

*Equal pay for teachers

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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*Right to own property

*All men and women are created equal

*Rights to legal council

*Rights to have guardianship

of children in a divorce

We need to be reminded that women’s participation in our democracy did not come easily and that Equality of Rights needs to be continually fought for and expanded upon. The work is not done, and we need this commemorative monument to keep the vision alive in the continued efforts towards equality. We intend to build a monument, dedicated to the power of collaboration and unity. A site for contemplation, education, conversation and inspiration that is commensurate with the preeminent historical and lasting significance that the woman’s suffrage movement has had on the United States of America. It is time to fill in the missing stories of the women who helped build our country.