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New York's Central Park is set to unveil a statue of women's rights
pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth --
marking the park's first statue of real-life women.
"You've heard of breaking the glass ceiling," said Meredith Bergmann,
the sculptor of the piece. "This sculpture is breaking the bronze ceiling."
The statue will be unveiled Wednesday morning, and comes 100 years after
the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
It honors three key figures in the women's rights movement with roots in
New York, each of whom died before American women gained the right to vote.
Anthony, who was arrested and convicted of voting illegally in 1872, and
Stanton co-founded the American Equal Rights Association and pushed for
women's suffrage. Truth, who was born into slavery in New York, escaped
to freedom in 1826 and became a well-known abolitionist and women's
rights activist.
"It's wonderful that now the city of New York and Central Park are
focusing on seeing women's accomplishments as worthy of statuary,"
Bergmann said.
Statues of women remain rare in New York City and across the country.
Central Park currently has statues of several fictional girls and women,
such as Alice in Wonderland and Mother Goose, and even features a statue
of a real-life dog, Balto. But the statue of the political campaigners
will be the park's first of actual flesh-and-blood women in its 167-year
history.
Where are the women? New effort to give them just due on monuments,
street names
Across New York City, only five of the city's 145 statues of historic
figures depict women, according to Pam Elam, the President of Monumental
Women, the organization that has spearheaded the creation of the new statue.
And nationally, less than 10% of America's outdoor sculptures depict
historical women, according to the Smithsonian Collections Search Center.
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