elizabeth cady stanton was there on her honeymoon. she had just married an abolitionist named henry stanton. for her, it was a european tour rather than a political journey. the two women instantly connected. elizabeth cady stanton later described lucretia mott as a revelation of womanhood. she said i did not know it was possible for women to be so outspoken and independent. she really became an admirer of lucretia mott. elizabeth cady stanton refer to lucretia mott as the moving spirit of the seneca falls convention of 1848. it was a label lucretia mott rejected. she said elizabeth, you should claim that for yourself. but it was the fact that lucretia mott was in the area that the convention was held and her presence was advertised to draw attendees. her sister lived in auburn, new york, which was not far from seneca falls, so she would come up to this part of the country regularly. when she came up in 1848, she was engaged in a number of activities. she attended an annual quaker meeting. the genesee early meeting. she traveled to ont

she has become almost what elizabeth cady stanton made her, almost a saint. ad in actuality, she was deeply radical person for her time and was not afraid to speak her beliefs. in 1860 nine in new york city, elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony founded the national women's suffrage movement for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. however, much of the women's movement's progress came in the west. , dunaway, who established a pro-suffrage it newspaper, became active in the movement. a goodamin dunaway was husband and father to the children. be the levelve may of business skills that somebody should have in managing a farm. because of his kindness and generosity, he cosigned a loan for a friend, and the friend defaulted on that loan, and as a uniways loss to their farm. that was in the midnight -- that 1860's.the mid- benjamin had a farming accident and became disabled. it therefore fell to abigail to become the breadwinner for the family. she eventually decided to move to albany, oregon, a little town further south in the willamette

elizabeth cady stanton was there on her honeymoon she just married an abolitionist named henry stanton, it was a european tour versus a political journey as it was for the accretion law, the two women i think instantly connected and elizabeth cady scan later described the revelation of womanhood, and never met a woman like this before and i did not know that it was possible for women to be so outspoken and independent, so she really became in a and mey meyer. >> it was actually labeled that she rejected, she said no elizabeth, you should claim that for yourself, is really your idea. but the fact is that she was in the area that the convention was held in her presence was advertised to draw attendees, so her sister lived in auburn you nork which is not far from seneca falls so she would come up regularly to central new york regularly, when she came up in 1848 she was actually engaged in a number of different activities, she attended an annual quaker meeting, she traveled to ontario canada to visit former slaves there, american slaves who fled to canada, she went to the seneca reservatio

so, this is a portrait of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony. it is from 1870 by napoleon simoni and he captures them together. anthony is pointing to a book, and they are very dignified. and this is what would be a publicity shot today. they were using this portrait to represent them to a wider audience. they didn't even meet until 1851. and so seneca falls, as most of probably recall from our history books in high school, was a gathering, the first national convention in 1848. in new york, in seneca falls. and elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning document, one of the first documents that put into writing that women were advocating for a vote. so what i hope this exhibition explains is by going back way back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848. and so suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it actually has a long history that others would argue started well before. so there is a great

the progressive elizabeth cady stanton. t i also want us to remember the racist elizabeth cady stanton. the woman was not perfect. she never acknowledged that she grew up in a slave-owning household, and i think she never really took accountability for her racist statements. that's the imperfect elizabeth cady stanton. the centennial, the 100 year anniversary opens up the possibility of us really, finally, telling the honest, true story. >> it's a perfect opportunity for us to talk about how barriers, when they fall, don't fall for everyone. the great failing of the suffrage movement was the platform was a platform of white supremacy. >> they made the argument, give women the right to vote because white women outnumber negroes and immigrants. and women's suffrage is a way to maintain white, native-born supremacy. african-american women basically didn't get the right to vote, really, until 1965, and the voting rights act. native-american women who choose to vote really weren't able to. in some cases until the 1950s. and even

between elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony on one side and lucy stone and her husband henry blackwell, on the other. stone and blackwell after the civil war, they are staunch abolitionists and they believe that the black men should be enfranchised first, that the 15th amendment would give black men the right to vote, should be ratified and then women can fight for their vote. susan b. and elizabeth cady, if they're going into the constitution, we're going with them or else we're fighting it. and this split the movement for almost 30 years. and they had rival organizations. it was deeply damaging for the cause. and i was set out -- that was going to be my dissertation topic. i was going to prove that elizabeth cady and susan b. were horrible people and had ruined the movement and so forth. but it was so depressing -- [laughter] johanna: and my faculty adviser alan crowder, has kindly come here today and he can remember that i walked into his office and i said, i want to start thinking about what finally worked. i want t

books and high school was a gathering with the national convention in 1848 in seneca falls, elizabeth cady stanton and others with the declaration of sentiment which is the beginning document of one of the first documents important to writing but were advocating for the falls, what i hope this exposition explains by going back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights in the citizenship rights well before 1848 and so suffrage did not appear out of thin air and actually have a long history others have argued and so that's a great influx that i encourage you to look into i thought 1869, now were going to move into the next hour in 1870s, when the second gallery and we start to include the representation of the union. . . . and they would gather and meet in what was called chapters. in 1873 women's temperance endorsed the suffrage cause so all of a sudden suffrage expanded their membership by 150,000 members, incredible amount of people for that era. at the top, very active, energetic, there's a woman on a horse who is leaping over in these well marked sp

sojourner truth, and so many of the pioneers, susan b anthony and elizabeth cady stanton, coming outf the declaration of sentiments in 1848, they were joined by frederick douglass. so there was a real marriage of effort and belief, conviction, commitment between the abolitionists and the suffrage movement. after the civil war, when the constitution was amended to give black men the right to vote, that began a rupture between the two movements. and i have tried to understand it from the perspective of everyone involved. and i do understand. some of the challenges that i think both black and white women tried to deal with. they were sometimes successful in coming together, and recommitting themselves to the struggle, but even until the very end when the pressure was on congress to pass the amendment. and woodrow wilson. you see the calculations of alice paul, carrie chapman, ida b wells or mary church terrel, two white suffragists and two black suffragists trying to figure out how do we deal with both sex and race? how do we deal with the prejudices that affect both women and black peo

so suffrage was really key because what was happening is that elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony and others would get booed out of these halls when they would try to talk about suffrage and there would be black men in the audience because the fact that women were going to get the vote -- does everybody know what happened? women got the vote and states determined to take the vote away from black men that were -- from african-american men through the 15th amendment. states began to pull back. so that was for tubman, that's quite a dilemma to advance women getting the vote, not including herself, and then black men very specifically whose -- their right to vote was going to be abridged. it was not going to be there. that put her in a real difficult situation. but susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton knew they needed a speaker like harriet to advance the suffrage argument. and tub man knew that if she advanced suffrage as a concept, one person, one vote, that was the bigger victory to have and then to still fight on for full enfranchisement of all americans. she knew t

after the civil war, when elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony split the woman, the women's movement apart by vowing that they will not support the 15th amendment, which removes the barriers to black men voting, they won't support it unless women are also included. and this horrifies the other women who start a rival organization. so for 20 years, you have these two rival groups working at cross purposes. but one black man named robert pervis stood up for elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony in this rather unexpected decision to fight the 15th amendment. and pervis said, if my daughter cannot have voting rights along with my son, i won't vote for it because she has a double curse of being a woman and a black woman. so i think, you know, we have to say that there are always some men who have stood with women, and i just wanted to throw that into the conversation. >> i think what's distinct in this particular era is that they organized. >> absolutely. >> and you know, celebrity endorsers, there have also been, back to thomas payne, t

host: we talk about elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony, who were pioneers in all of this. ow old were they at the time, and what role did they play? guest: unfortunately, both susan b anthony and elizabeth cady stanton, early supporters of the women's suffrage movement, were not alive when this happened. they had died earlier, in the 20th century. so the women's suffrage movement really is an example of three generations of the movement. the movement of susan b anthony , elizabetha mott cady stanton, sojourner truth, those women, and in the next generation, which of course would be the carrie chapman catt and other supporters at that time, and the third generation is the lucy burns and alice paul generation, ida b wells, who are a little bit younger. so three generations really of activism and women to get the 19th amendment over the hump and over the hurdle to make part of the constitution. photo of lucya burns in the workhouse in fairfax county, and she was house they are, again, for basically disrupting society, correct? guest: that is correct. she was actually the ameri

soat the end of this month, there, will be an unveiling of statue of sojourner truth and elizabeth cady stantond susan b anthony and central park where , the only prior woman was alice in wonderland. so it means the world to me that , people are focusing on this history, learning lessons from it, adjusting their own understanding of the difficulties that so many people thato overcome, to widen circle of opportunity and make our constitution real. not just to a very small group, as it was in the beginning, but to every american. it could not have come at a more opportune time for us to resolve that we are going to make our future different, truly different from our past. and finally, resolve a lot of these long-standing thorny issues about equality and constitutional inclusion that have really kept us unequal and unjust for too long. dr. hayden: elaine? elaine: i totally agree that what commemorating the centeno has allowed us to do is to look back and learn those lessons. to realize that our democracy is not given. every generation, sometimes many generations have to fight to expand it, to make

elizabeth cady stanton led the suffrage movement. beth cady stanton >> the one i remember most is the story of elizabeth around the age of 8 years old overhearing some of what was happening in her father's law office so women were coming in seeking legal counsel and apparently leaving in tears because of the realization that they really weren't protected under the law. >> reporter: as the story goes, young elizabeth planned to tear out any pages from her father's law book that oppressed women. so it began a journey to ensure that all men and women are created and treated equal. ♪ >> can you picture she's standing in front of these crowds, these people they're unruly they're hurling insults towards her. and she stands and she begins to speak. and her words just penetrate she is my great grandmother. >> reporter: she knows all the stories of her ancestor sorjourner truth who followed a divine call to spread the gospel of freedom and justi >> and this one unruly crowd soon becomes captivated by her they're receiving what she's saying >>

elizabeth cady stanton invited him to come. she invited him. she presented her declaration of rights, a lament of all the reasons women are oppressed and it is a direct echo of the declaration of independence. she uses jeffersons language. then she has resolutions to solve these problems. one of them, the ninth resolution, is the idea of the vote. and that is considered so radical , and so unattainable, that even her fellow reformers at the seneca falls meeting, say, please do not put that on the table. they ask her to take it off the agenda and she refuses. and it is frederick douglass who stands up and says, you must, you must demand this. you must demand the vote. it is not going to be given to you. just as it is not going to be given to me as a black man. unless we are willing to fight for it. it is frederick douglas who convinces the other very reluctant participants at seneca falls, to sign onto this resolution number nine and approve it. and i think we would possibly never have heard of seneca falls, if it was not for frederick douglass

there were many men along the way who were supportive of elizabeth cady stanton, her husband.usbandhapman catt's essentially bankrolled her participation in the movement because he was able to support travelssupport her related to women's suffrage. host: michael is next, new york. caller: good morning. it is so fitting, this topic you guys are talking about with women's rights and everything going on in the world. as we reflect back, we look back into the abolitionist movement and how instrumental women were. it ties right into the next movement come out to the suffrage movement, where harriet tubman was this abolitionist that helped free slaves. now we have to look at women as being instrumental in this process of getting rights to vote. hads fitting today you guys this on and the way things are going with the post office and rights to vote. it is so important to exercise our right, and women saw that. i love history. i love to see this stuff. it reminds us where we came from. locally, every time i drive through the town, it is a sight to see. a museum up there and everything

susan b anthony, elizabeth cady stanton and frederick douglass.ou write in your book these three people, extraordinary 50 or partnership, change the course of our history. what is important for people to know about how the three of them worked together to advance rights in our society? guest: you're very right. i would say that they are very important names. i will make one small correction, which i did not know this until i had to delve into it. frederick douglass is at the seneca falls meeting in 1848. susan anthony is not. susan anthony joins the movement a few years later. she is working as a temperance, she is a teacher, and she is working in temperance and abolition. those three notables come together through the abolition movement. that is a really important thing for us to understand, that the women's rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, is a outgrowth of the abolition movement. and the women we think of as the foremothers, a stanton, susan anthony, lucretia mott, lucy stone, or actually abolition workers. very active abolition

elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning document, one of the first documents that women were advocating for a vote. what i hope this exhibition explains is by going back way back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848. suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it has a long history that others argue. starts before 1832. that is a great intellectual debate i encourage you to look into. i brought us up to 1869 and now we are going to move into the next gallery, which starts in 1870. we are in the second gallery and i wanted to make sure to include representation of the women's christian temperance union. it helps us get into a lot of friend issues that american women were facing. temperance was a large organization that had 100 == 150,000 women across the united states involved. they would gather and meet in what was called chapters. the temperance union fully endorsed -- the suffrage cause. there is a woman on the horse. you see the wom

elizabeth cady stanton stood before the first-ever women's rights convention in seneca falls, new york, and declared that women should enjoy this fundamental civil rights. what a job she did. seven decades later, the suffrage movement succeeded. 1920, the united states ratified the 19th amendment. it was a monumental victory for equality, for justice, and a monumental victory for america. today, a record-breaking 131 women are serving in congress. nearly 70 million women vote in elections. 56% of our nation's college students are women. more than one million women own successful businesses. in other words, women dominate the united states. [laughter] i think we can say that very strongly. before the china virus struck our nation, women had gained 4.3 million jobs -- a record. rateomen's unemployment had plummeted to the lowest level in more than 65 years. last year, over 70% of the new jobs went to women. i will say, we are coming back very strongly. we will see those numbers again very soon. but the numbers that we have for unemployment and employment, frankly, we had 160 million peop

elizabeth cady stanton sorjourner truth and susan b. anthony.ou let's keep commemorating women's equality day here is renee elise goldsberry known as angelica from the original "hamilton" cast reciting words of the suffrage movement >> well, children, where there is so much react there must be -- racket, there must be something out of kilter. i think that the negroes of the south and the women at the north all talking about rights, the white man will be in a fix pretty soon. but what's all this here talking about? what means this vote for women ? just this. the time h just this. the time has come when they may voice with free men concerns of land and home. then snap the ancient tether enthralling us too long and stoutly pull together to right a grievous wrong what's more awakes the spirit of the just and a worldwide flame is kindled from the dust women for the right we know, for the duty that we owe, for all souls now here and coming, vote we must. let us stand together, women, hard and fast. let us vow to keep the faith until the last by the tr

elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning documentone of the first documents that women were advocating for the vote. exhibition this explains, by going back to 1832, is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848. suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it actually has a long history that others argue starts well before 1852, so this is a great intellectual debate i encourage you to look into. us up to 1869 and now we are going to move into the next gallery, which starts in 1870. we are in the second gallery and i wanted to make sure to include representation of the women's christian temperance union. upsets get into a lot -- helps us get into a lot of issues that american women were facing. temperance was a large organization that had 100,000 women across the united states involved. they would gather and meet in what was called chapters. the temperance union fully endorsed -- there is a woman on the horse. at the top, what is great about those activ

direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her the declaration was drafted by elizabeth cady stanton also known as an anti-slavery campaigner but the struggle for women's voting rights was long it was only in 1917 after the u.s. enter a world war one that the suffragette movement really took off helped in part by women taking on important work traditionally done by men while they were far away at war. 72 years after the seneca falls convention on august 18th 1920 the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution was ratified granting women the right to vote but for decades this only applied to white women it wasn't until the 165 civil rights act that racial discrimination was prohibited in voting to this day women and especially women of color are significantly under represented in u.s. politics on the 100 senate verse 3 of women's voting rights the democrats face presidential candidate camila harris wants to do better when i think about obviously the centennial and the importance of acknowledging the accomplishment but also how recent it is and how much we still have to do to achieve equi

landed in woodlawn cemetery in the bronx, the final resting place of famed suffragettes like elizabeth cady stanton to connect that these are real people and, in their day, they were doing the bold, brave thing. >> reporter: the team hopes to encourage more people to vote, as well as take up skydiving themselves. but they want their message to carry more broadly for women and girls to live fearless lives, trailblazers at all altitudes. >> yeah, we would love to have people join us in the sky and come skydiving with us, and we also really invite people to consider what is bold and what is brave to them, and to live into those ideas. >> reporter: drawing inspiration from suffragists like alva belmont, co-captain amy chmelecki also emphasizes the importance of reaching for the sky, even now, as people focus on the essentials. >> you have to get grounded, but i hope people don't stop dreaming. the dreamers are so important. they're so important to this world. none of us would be here if it wasn't for the dreamers like alva belmont, and what she did. it really does make a difference. >> reporter: a remi

this is a portrait of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony. he captured them together, you know, anthony is pointing to a book and they're very dignified and this is what would be like a publicity shot today. they were using this portrait to represent them to a wider audience. they didn't even meet until 1851, and so seneca falls, as most of us probably recall from our history books in high school, was a gathering, the first national convention, in 1848 in new york in seneca falls and they -- cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments which is really the beginning document, one of the first documents put into writing that women were advocating for the vote. but what i hope that this exhibition explains by going right back to 1832, women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, their citizenship rights, well before 1848, and so suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it actually has a long history that others would argue starts well before 1832, and so that's a great intellectual debate i encoura

anthony elizabeth cady stanton and so's your inner truth they're sitting around a table as if conducting a strategy session anthony holding a pamphlet that reads books for women from design phase to sculpting to unveiling it took nearly 3 years and the location was no accident here in central park there are over 2 dozen different statues of beethoven shakespeare and even want to frederick douglass who fought to in slavery in america and there's a statue of a dog but until now there's been no statues dedicated exclusively only to women. it comes at a time less than 3 months before a presidential election for women's votes will be more critical than ever and when for the 1st time and u.s. history a black woman is on the ticket running as vice president and nearly 4 years after hillary clinton was united states her 1st female presidential candidate on any major party ticket she was on hand for the statues debut there is nothing more important to honor the women portrayed in this statue then to vote that is the best way to lead america forward as a sufferer just used to say forward through t

but one black man named robert pervis stood up for elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony in this rather unexpected decision to fight the 15th amendment, and pervis said, if my daughter cannot have voting rights along with my son, i won't vote for it because she has a double curse of being a woman and a black woman. so, i think, you know, we have to say that there are always some men who have stood with woman, and i just wanted to throw that into the conversation. >> i think what's distinct in this particular era is that they organized. >> absolutely. >> and you know, celebrity endorsers, it's always been back to thomas payne, john stewart, there's always been those. but this was really a unique happening. >> i agree. what else is strange about it is that the few people in their memoirs who write about it at all write about the 1911 parade or the 1912 and the response from the crowds. i mean, that seems to be a very effecting experience. and belard talks about it also. it's the only thing he mentions. no one ever mentions the league by name. only the obituary menti

no one would have known elizabeth cady stanton and lecresha motte and others had the meeting middle of july 1848 in seneca falls if the telegraph wire wasn't recently strung along the erie canal. words got out women and men voted on 171 -- 11 resolutions women voted people were outraged. were it not for the telegraph line no one would have known but the seneca falls newspaper. they were corresponding. elizabeth constantly righting to her chum susan b. anthony, come stir the pudding, i need to convene a convention by correspondents. then fortunately typewriters invested. mimeograph machines invented and relationships with the newspaper or creating your own. elizabeth katie stanton and susan b. anthony created a newspaper called "the revolution" in 1870, failed almost immediately refusing to take advertisements from quack medicines. thought they murdered women and refused advertising revenue and they failed. in contrast, lucy stone with her "women's journal" publishing it. another faction of the suffrage it's, publishes it until 1935. but i want to start by actually challenging the premi

anthony, elizabeth cady stanton, and lucy stone, and they are really urging the government to consider extending the right of suffrage to women as it considers doing so for newly emancipated african-american men. unfortunately for them, the government did not listen to their pleas. and once the 15th amendment passed congress, it was clear that women, both african-american and white women, were not going to get the right to vote. this really created a huge amount of tension among women suffragists. they were divided over whether or not to support the 15th amendment, and it created something that is called the schism in the suffrage movement. two new national organizations were formed. the first one was the national women's suffrage association. that was founded by anthony and stanton. they did not support the 15th amendment. they focused their work from that point onward to fighting for a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote. here, we have a petition from the american women suffrage association, which was founded by lucy stone, her husband, and other suffragi

host: we talk about elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony, who were pioneers in all of this. ere they at the time, and what role did they play? guest: unfortunately, both susan b anthony and elizabeth cady stanton, early supporters of the women's suffrage movement, were not alive when this happened. they had died earlier, in the 20th century. so the women's suffrage movement really is an example of three generations of the movement. the movement of susan b anthony , elizabetha mott cady stanton, sojourner truth, those women, and in the next generation, which of course would be the carrie chapman catt and other supporters at that time, and the third generation is the lucy burns and alice paul generation, ida b wells, who are a little bit younger. so three generations really of activism and women to get the 19th amendment over the hump and over the hurdle to make part of the constitution. photo of lucya burns in the workhouse in fairfax county, and she was house they are, again, for basically disrupting society, correct? guest: that is correct. she was actually the american suff

anthony, elizabeth cady stanton, and lucy stone, and they're really urging the government to consider extending the right of suffrage to women as it considers doing so for newly emancipated african-american men. unfortunately for them, the government did not listen to their pleas, and, once the 15th amendment passed congress, it was clear that women, both african-american and white women, were not going to get the right to vote. this really created a huge amount of tension among -- among women suffragists. they were divided over whether or not to support the 15th amendment, and it actually created something that is called the schism in the suffrage movement. two new national organizations were formed. the first one was the national women's suffrage association. that was founded by anthony and stanton. they did not support the 15th amendment and focused their work from that point onward to fighting for a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote. here we have a petition from the american woman suffrage association, which was founded by lucy stone, her husband, an

there's a big analogy between that and francis harper very public disagreement with elizabeth cady stanton in the 1886 convention. i think angela describes it best in her book. that is what i was going to ask. thank you. >> he is talking about francis harper who had been a free woman. she was a poet and an abolitionist lecturer. and african-american. after the civil war there is the meeting where -- during the civil war all of these separate suffrage groups had stopped meeting. there is a meeting afterwards with women and the men get together and she stood at one of them and said, basically, as much as she wanted to vote herself, that like men should have the vote and basically that white woman needed to get over it at that point. [laughter] that's not how i say it in the book. it is much more eloquent, trust me. >>, and a novelist as well. i actually happen to think that women are the superior race. i do. i think they are smarter, more courageous, less willing to fight, more willing to negotiate and find a common cause. so i actually would advocate strongly that the senate was met made wi

pioneers like elizabeth cady stanton, susan b. anthony, sojourner truth, and ida b.rganized protests, marches and greater awareness that led to political action. the u.s. house of representatives finally approved it in may 1920, and the senate followed two weeks later. three-quarters of the states were needed to ratify, and so on august 18, 1920.ast to do but as hailed as the 19th amendment was, the suffragist movement often sidelined women c or, and many faced huge obstacles for decades.ey while howed up at the polls, black, latina, asian and native american women all faced difficulties with voter suppression. the voting rights act of 1965 finally guaranteed loned protections. tosy, women's rights moveme have grown again, including a drive to ps the equal rights amendment, a campaign that first began in the 10s. president trump, who has been criticized for s own derogatory remarks about women in the past, marked centennial today. that included a posthumous pardon for susan b. anthony. she was fined $100 after voting illegally in 1872. today, i spoke with noted femin

anthony elizabeth cady stanton and so's your inner truth they're sitting around a table as if conducting a strategy session anthony holding a pamphlet that reads books for women from design pays to sculpting to unveiling it took nearly 3 years and the location was no accident here in central park there are over 2 dozen different statues of beethoven shakespeare and even want to frederick douglass who fought to in slavery in america and there's a statue of a dog but until now there's been no statues dedicated exclusively only to women. it comes at a time less than 3 months before a presidential election for women's votes will be more critical than ever and when for the 1st time in her us history a black woman is on the ticket running as vice president and nearly 4 years after hillary clinton was united states her 1st female presidential candidate on any major party ticket she was on hand for the statue's debut there is nothing more important to honor the women portrayed in this statue then to vote that is the best way to lead. erica forward as the suffragist used to say forward through th