“My idea for a monument to womens' suffrage is depicted through a long or winding staircase with a wall of statues of famous women suffragists through the 100 year journey for women's suffrage. The idea is to show that women stood on the shoulders of the women before them as we climbed uphill to receive the suffrage and worked to receive equal rights. I used AI to create the depiction of my idea. The statues are bronze and the stairs granite. The final statue (not depicted exactly in my rendering) would be of the first women voting in the first election after the 19th amendment passed.”
I took a class on the Woman's Suffrage Movement and read many primary sources about the sacrifices that were made by so many. What really stood out to me was that the work was one continuous round with each successive generation standing on the shoulders and benefitting from the efforts of the generation before. The concept of how we all climb together also comes to mind. Those who started the movement never lived to see the end and those who finally saw the day and cast their ballots could not have gotten there without the sacrifices of women they had never met. It is an incredible story of hard work, sacrifice, and sisterhood. It was far from unified and there were many ups and downs, but against all odds, the day came.
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