Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Statue Now Stands in Central Park
Learn about the newly unveiled statue and a timeline of statues in NYC from Gothamist:
This is the first statue in Central Park to depict real women, a celebratory occasion, but one that was briefly controversial when the group behind it — the nonprofit Monumental Women’s Statue Fund — originally chose to feature only white women, casting aside the importance of Black women’s voices in the fight for the right to vote.
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