They stood in front of the White House all day, every day (except for Sundays) for two and a half years, bearing silent witness to women’s voting rights denied. Dressed in white, with purple and gold sashes draped over their shoulders, the Silent Sentinels, as these women were known, stood …
The crowd inside the Tennessee State Capitol on Aug. 18, 1920 was colorful, to say the least. Men, mostly state legislators, sported red roses pinned to the lapels of their black suits; women wearing suffragette white filled the visitor’s gallery, yellow roses pinned to their hats, their dresses, even carried …
Women helping women is how Adelaide Johnson rose to modest acclaim as a sculptor in the late 1890’s. Known as the “sculptress of the women’s movement” Adelaide Johnson is best known for The Portrait Monument, a sculpture of suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Now …
