![]() ![]() It was ugly, it weighed too much, it was too big. Visitors wouldn’t have seen any description of the sculptor who made it-a woman named Adelaide Johnson who was commissioned by the National Woman’s Party and accepted a contract that barely covered the cost of materials-or who it portrayed. But the statue still didn’t have a plaque. Visitors would see the women’s sculpture as well as other statues and a replica of the Magna Carta. After three such unsuccessful attempts, the Crypt was cleaned up and opened to the public in 1963. On multiple occasions, Congress refused to approve bills that would’ve brought the statue back into the light. “At the time it was a service closet, with brooms and mops and the suffrage statue.” “The crypt was originally intended for Washington’s remains, though it never housed them,” says Joan Wages, the president and CEO of the National Women’s History Museum. Congress also ordered the inscription be scraped off. Until the very next day, when the statue was moved underground. But on that day in 1921, with their statue gleaming and a gilt inscription proclaiming, “Woman first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declaring herself an entity to be reckoned,” it seemed as if their work was being honored and recognized. All three women were suffragists in the 1800s none of them lived to see women achieve enfranchisement. Anthony and Lucretia Mott in towering white marble. The crowd gathered around the Portrait Monument, which showed Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. The room holds everything from John Trumbull’s paintings of the American Revolution to statues of former presidents and important figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. Capitol sits beneath the high, domed ceiling and connects the House of Representatives and the Senate sides of the Capitol. Six months after the 19th amendment was ratified, giving women the vote in the United States, an assembly of more than 70 women’s organizations and members of Congress gathered at the Capitol Rotunda for the unveiling of a massive statue. ![]()
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