by Susan | Mar 28, 2016 | Monuments
When suffragists campaigned for the vote in Australia in the late nineteenth century, critics said that women had no interest in political rights. Activists sought support from both men and women throughout Victoria. A giant petition with 30,000 signatures , later to...
by Susan | Mar 21, 2016 | Monuments
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to...
by Susan | Mar 14, 2016 | Monuments
The Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial was the first statue erected on public land in Washington, D.C. to honor an African American and a woman. It is located in Lincoln Park, at East Capitol Street and 12th Street N.E. The statue features an elderly Mrs. Bethune handing a...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2016 | Monuments
For International Woman’s Day we thought we’d highlight a few monuments honoring women this month. Five Alberta women fought to have Canadian women recognized constitutionally as “persons” who were eligible to be named to the Senate. Emily...
by Susan | Feb 29, 2016 | Monuments
The Rosenstraße nonviolent protest, on “Rose street” in Berlin, was carried out by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested and locked up in a provisional collecting center rather than being shipped to the death camp at...
by Susan | Feb 22, 2016 | Monuments
The sculpture was erected in 1992 through the efforts of the Oklahoma University Student Association at a main north entrance to the University of Oklahoma campus. A standing Native-American male figure faces east. He wears moccasins, buckskin pants and a breechcloth....
