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The women who are the foundation of the movement, the influencers, the Seneca Indians, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Stanton Blatch, and Sojourner Truth tell the beginnings of this movement of change. From the base of the sculpture rises the next generation of the movement, the “daughters” who achieve ratification of the nineteenth amendment, represented by Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Mary Church Terrell. Standing on the shoulders of giants, these women were elevated by what came before. Raised to a height that uplifts our consciousness with the power of collaboration, A height that elevates the accomplishments of women and constitutional change elevates and celebrates our democracy. A height that reflects the lasting impact of the largest expansion of citizenship in the United States from which the ratification banner cascades down to the circles that wrap the base and ripple outwards. The ripples that flow out from the sculpture are the next generations of women who continued the fight for women’s equality and the right to vote regardless ones ethnicity.
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