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There are 29 statues in Central Park, yet none of real women from history. That will change when a monument to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth is installed in 2020.
The first monument honoring real women in Central Park's 167 year history was ... the first statue of an African American and significantly a statue that depicts three great Americans working ...
A sculptor known for trying to redress history through her art is creating the first statue of real-life women for New York’s Central Park, where the only females so honored until now have been ...
The statue drew criticism from those who felt it suggested that the architects of the suffrage movement were solely white, when in fact African American women such as Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth ...
New York’s Central Park is set to unveil a statue of women’s rights suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth – marking the park’s first statue of real women.
Central Park's new statue comes just one week shy ... She and Stanton later co-founded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African ...
The statue was removed from Central Park Tuesday morning and will be moved to Sim’s gravesite at Greenwood Cemetery in ... ‘let’s try to find maybe three African American women doctors.
The statue of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth will be dedicated in August and help mark 100 years of women's right to vote.
Become a paid member to listen to this article. For more than a century, the story of Seneca Village had been largely forgotten. The pre-dominantly African American village was settled in what was ...
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. - A sculptor known for trying to redress history through her art is creating the first statue of real-life women for New York’s Central Park, where the only females so honoured ...