THE National Women’s Suffrage Monument

Every Word We Utter

YOUR DONATION WILL FUND THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MONUMENT, THE FIRST MONUMENT IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL TO COMMEMORATE THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT FOR ALL CITIZENS TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

The above image is one of many studies for Every Word We Utter by Jane DeDecker. This original concept spearheaded HR 473, a bill to place a Women’s Monument in Washington DC. The final design will be a collaboration with the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission, the artist and the selected archteitect.

Every Word We Utter

National Women's Suffrage Momument

We need to be reminded that women’s participation in our democracy did not come easily and that rights for women need 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 shared vision. 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.

Harriett Stanton Blatch

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Harriet

— writer, politician, abolitionist, suffragist — 

founded the Equality League 

of Self-Supporting Women. 

She organized labor activists and

promoted women’s rights to wealth and distinction.

Harriet mobilized women in the suffrage movement.




Alice Paul

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Alice

— American Quaker, feminist, activist, suffragist —

organized pickets, marches, protests and rallies.

She fought for women’s rights to 

profitable employment and fair wage. 

Alice strategized, campaigned, and lobbied congress

for the passage of the 19th Amendment.



Sorjourner Truth

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Sojourner

— orator, entrepreneur, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist — 

advocated for the education of freed slaves and 

the desegregation of streetcars. 

She was an outspoken advocate against incarceration. 

Sojourner was the first Black woman to win 

a child custody case in court.

Susan B Anthony

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 Susan 

__ teacher,  social reformer, author, orator__

her first petition as a young girl was to support equal pay for  female teachers.

She felt women needed to voice their ideas in the formation of laws.

She drafted the 19th Amendment to include women as citizens

Susan was arresested and fined for trying to vote in 1872.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth

__abolitionist, human rights activist, lecturer, author__

studied law while in her fathers office.

She saw first hand the need for women to have a right to legal council and to have gaurdianship of their children in the case of divorce.

She saw the need for women to own property. Elzabeth felt that men and women are created equal.

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13 February, 2019

HR 473 Passes House

Congressman Jo Neguse speaks on the floor of the House of Represenatives the day HR473 passes the House.

3 December, 2020
HR 473 is read aloud on the United States Senate Floor.

17 december, 2020

Members of the former Cenntenial Suffrage Commission are at hand to witness the passage of HR 473.