I think it's great!

for the lady who sacrificed her freedom to win a woman's right to vote!

Thank you.

I'm not far from there. Methinks I'll take a trip in November if the stars align properly for that day...

...is this? I grew up in Rochester, and used to be quite fascinated by Mt. Hope cemetery.

Many, many individuals of historical significance are resting in Mount Hope Cemetery including Frederick Douglass.

Great place for a walk in the autumn!

...and read a book. I did that several times. I used to live within walking distance of there after graduating from the U of R's nursing school back in 1973, and working at Strong Memorial. I lived on a charming little street called Menlo Place, which backed up to Highland Park.

I lost track of the time one late afternoon and got locked in. I had to climb the fence to get out, and garnered some pretty strange looks from people driving by.

Thank you for sharing it with us

There's something in my eye...

wonderful tribute...

From the beginning of the century, when Abigail Adams, the wife of one President and the mother of another, said, "we will not hold ourselves bound to obey laws in which we have no voice or representation," until now, woman's discontent has been steadily increasing, culminating nearly thirty years ago in a simultaneous movement among the women of the nation, demanding the right of suffrage. In making our just demands, a higher motive than the pride of sex inspires us; we feel that national safety and stability depend on the complete recognition of the broad principles of our government....

It was the boast of the founders of the republic, that the rights for which they contended, were the rights of human nature. If these rights are ignored in the case of one half the people, the nation is surely preparing for its own downfall. Governments try themselves. The recognition of a governing and a governed class is incompatible with the first principles of freedom. Woman has not been a heedless spectator of the events of this century, nor a dull listener to the grand arguments for the equal rights of humanity. From the earliest history of our country, woman has shown equal devotion with man to the cause of freedom, and has stood firmly by his side in its defence. Together, they have made this country what it is. Woman's wealth, thought and labor have cemented the stones of every monument man has reared to liberty.

And now, at the close of a hundred years, as the hour hand of the great clock that marks the centuries points to 1876, we declare our faith in the principles of self-government; our full equality with man in natural rights; that woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself—to all the opportunities and advantages life affords, for her complete development; and we deny that dogma of the centuries, incorporated in the codes of all nations—that woman was made for man—her best interests, in all cases, to be sacrificed to his will.

We ask of our rulers, at this hour, no special favors, no special privileges, no special legislation. We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Circular, National Woman Suffrage Association, Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States . . . July 4th, 1876 (N.p., n.d.).
Prepared for the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, vol. 3, National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880, ed. Ann D. Gordon (New Brunswick, N.J., 2003). ©Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/decl.html

It's so cool.

…..as feminists, we have to tell the truth. We have to do history differently than the white-wash methods of the patriarchy.

Great as she was, the truth is, that she and other suffragettes were outraged that black men might get the vote before white women got it. She and her cohorts stated that white women were superior to black men. Thereby sowing the seeds of the problem within 20th century feminism, where many people of color saw it as a white woman's movement and not a universal movement that included them and their concerns. This was a huge loss for the movement.

Yay that we women can vote. Though in many cases we've continued to waste that right (Reagan for example). But history might be different if feminists had made it their mission to get the franchise for everyone all at once and to exclude no one.

I understand she was a Victorian, in different times—but we modern woman have to tell the truth of what happened, if we want to now be as strong as possible.

That's a lovely tradition.

-- Mal

She was great!

I've let off enough steam. On to good stuff.

Don't see anything in her Bio that would indicate she wasn't for furthering women.

http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00021.html

And I've lived here since 1979!

There was some dialog on placing a woman on the $100. bill; but replacing Jackson - who many Native Americans perceive as a racist - would be more appropriate.

i'm ruddy red

She would be honored!

Thanks for posting this.

I love this photo.

The right to vote is precious, and we should use it widely.

Feel the Bern!

. . . who will save us from Trump.

Thanks, ladies.

when I was in 5th grade. It wasn't the first time I'd seen women on currency (other countries) but it was unique for American currency so I looked her up in the encyclopedia and thought it was pretty dumb that people thought bad things would happen if women got the vote.

I'm glad women can vote and think America is better off because of it due to increasing attention to many social issues that were previously ignored. I'm sure someone has studied the impact on our society and economy in the decades after the 19th amendment was ratified.