The Monumental Women Statue Fund announced last week that it’s including abolitionist and activist Sojourner Truth alongside suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the first-ever monument dedicated to women's suffrage. The bronze cast is due to be placed at Central Park's Literary Walk next summer.
Critics are saying this is a major mistake and are calling for a redesign.
“If Sojourner Truth is added in a manner that simply shows her working together with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Stanton’s home, it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”
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