{"id":78718,"date":"2020-01-16T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=78718"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:46:01","slug":"few-statehouses-feature-memorials-to-actual-historical-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/01\/16\/few-statehouses-feature-memorials-to-actual-historical-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Statehouses Feature Memorials to Actual Historical Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The proposed Suffragete monument showing Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Credit: NYC Design Commision)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VOA \u2014 COLUMBUS, OHIO – Ohio\u2019s Statehouse would join a small number of others around the country with outdoor monuments dedicated to real women in U.S. history under a proposal expected Thursday to create a memorial to Ohio women who fought for voting rights.<\/p>\n

Currently, all statues of historical figures outside the Statehouse are of men, including Christopher Columbus, President William McKinley (a former Ohio governor), and seven Civil War generals including Ulysses S. Grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho are these seven men?\u201d asks a trivia question for tourists at the base of the Civil War statue, which is topped by a statue of a woman from ancient Rome whose sons were prominent in the military and politics.<\/p>\n

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Currently, all statues of historical figures outside the Statehouse are of men, including Christopher Columbus, President William McKinley (a former Ohio governor), and seven Civil War generals including Ulysses S. Grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho are these seven men?\u201d asks a trivia question for tourists at the base of the Civil War statue, which is topped by a statue of a woman from ancient Rome whose sons were prominent in the military and politics.<\/p>\n

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Women’s Suffrage Movement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery looks back at the women\u2019s suffrage movement – one of the longest reform movements in U.S. history – with an exhibition called, \u201cVotes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.\u201d \u00a0Curator Kate Clarke Lemay shows us some of the art and artifacts from that era and how creating visual displays for their cause created a different understanding about women\u2019s freedom and voting rights. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Around the corner, \u201cPeace,\u201d a winged female figure, stands on the north side of the Statehouse, remembering Ohio\u2019s civil war soldiers \u201cAnd The Loyal Women Of That Period.\u201d Another statue of a generic woman, also representing peace, sits below a statue of McKinley.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, members of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Centennial Commission planned to propose the voting rights memorial to the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to include real women on the Statehouse grounds, especially those who fought for such an important right, said State Sen. Stephanie Kunze, a co-chair of the commission. Such a statue would both honor their work and inspire the girls and young women of today, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s deserving to honor the women who fought for the right to vote during this 100th anniversary, and then to really look forward to see what else women are going to achieve in the next 100 years,\u201d said Kunze, a Republican from Hilliard in suburban Columbus.<\/p>\n

If the memorial is approved, fundraising would likely top $1 million and construction could follow after a five-year waiting period.<\/p>\n

Nationally, statues of real women are relatively rare on the grounds of statehouses.<\/p>\n

Connecticut\u2019s Statehouse features a statue of former Gov. Ella Grasso, the state\u2019s first female governor elected in her own right, while Utah has a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, the country\u2019s first female state senator.<\/p>\n

A statue of Esther Hobart Morris, Wyoming\u2019s first female justice of the peace, stood for years in front of the state Capitol but was moved inside after last year\u2019s renovation, with some calls for it to be returned outside after its own renovation. In Hawaii, the Capitol features a statue of Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The Arkansas Capitol has a statue featuring the Little Rock Nine, the black students who integrated Central High School, six of whom were girls.<\/p>\n

Arkansas and Mississippi also have monuments to Confederate women featuring figurative representations. \u201cForward,\u201d an allegorical female statue, stands outside the Wisconsin State Capitol. \u201cAs Long as the Waters Flow,\u201d a 13-foot representation of a Native American woman, stands prominently outside the Oklahoma Capitol.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a memorial to women\u2019s suffrage that honors 25 women who fought for voting rights, with an expansive garden that includes their names but no statues.<\/p>\n

Inside statehouses, Alabama has a statue of Gov. Lurleen Wallace, Illinois has a statue of Lottie Holman O\u2019Neill, the first woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly, and Oklahoma has a statue of Kate Barnard, the second woman ever to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States (Oklahoma commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907).<\/p>\n

Nebraska\u2019s hall of fame inside the Capitol building includes busts of Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz, and Maryland will soon have an indoor statue of Harriet Tubman.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the country hasn\u2019t done a great job honoring all the people who contributed to what it means to be American, said Lisa Benton-Short, a geography professor at George Washington University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of our story that\u2019s missing, and it\u2019s missing from those key spaces,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial, unveiled in 2014 on the South Side of the Ohio Statehouse, was the Capitol\u2019s last new outdoor memorial. At the time, some questioned its appropriateness because it includes a representation of the Star of David, while others worried about triggering a race to erect other memorials. In the end, though, it was easily approved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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