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Library of Congress Magazine July/August 2019 Shall Not Be Denied Women Fight for the Vote LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE JULY/AUGUST 2019 SHALL NOT BE DENIED WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE Plus Band of Sisters Putting Suffrage on the Map History, Carved in Stone FEATURES ▪ Artist George W. Maynard symbolically 12 16 23 depicted civilization as a woman in this detail of Capitol Women Shall Not Be Denied Suffrage Sisters a mural in the Library’s The growing power of Joined by a common Key figures in the decades- Jefferson Building. Carol women legislators has cause, women fought for long battle to win the ballot M. Highsmith Archive / changed Capitol Hill. their right to vote. for women. Library of Congress LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE ▪ On the cover: Women workers, wearing suffrage sashes and carrying suffrage banners, picket near the White House in this February 1917 photograph colorized by Sanna Dullaway for Time magazine. Prints and Photographs Division / colorized image courtesy of Sanna Dullaway LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE DEPARTMENTS JULY / AUGUST 2019 VOL. 8 NO. 4 Mission of the 2 Library in History Library of Congress The Library’s mission is to engage, 3 Favorite Place inspire and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of 4 Curator's Picks knowledge and creativity. 6 Online Offerings Library of Congress Magazine is issued bimonthly by the Office of 3 Communications of the Library 7 My Job of Congress and distributed free of charge to publicly 8 Page from the Past supported libraries and research institutions, donors, academic libraries, learned societies and 10 Extremes allied organizations in the United States. 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Ruth Neely Tucker loc.gov/connect Brett Zongker 32 JULY/AUGUST 2019 LOC.GOV/LCM 1 LIBRARY IN HISTORY ▪ Above: Sculptor on the marriage license to approximate that Adelaide Johnson sits of her husband, 11 years her junior. among her busts of HISTORY, CARVED important figures from The Library holds Johnson’s papers: letters, the suffrage movement. IN STONE diaries, speeches and notes that chronicle a lifetime of work — including an effort to In an adventurous life, this get her busts of suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and suffragist sculptor forged Lucretia Mott permanently displayed in her own legacy. the new Library of Congress building, then nearing completion. As the “sculptor of the suffrage movement,” Adelaide Johnson created likenesses of Johnson had produced the busts for the some of the movement’s greatest figures — 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in and carved out her own place in history. Chicago. Three years later, Anthony wrote to Johnson, expressing hope that Congress Johnson lived an adventurous, tumultuous would purchase them for installation at the life. As a young woman, she fell down an Library in what’s now called the Jefferson elevator shaft, suffered terrible injuries, Building. then used the money she received as compensation to study in Europe and, “Those two women were the originators eventually, open a sculpture studio in of the woman suffrage movement as an Rome. An ardent feminist, she married organized force in this country and their British businessman Alexander Jenkins at a busts ought to stand in some of the niches ceremony witnessed by busts of prominent in that mammoth building,” Anthony wrote, suffragists — her “bridesmaids.” Jenkins took suggesting she might lobby Librarian of her last name and would be known variously Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford on the as Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jenkins Johnson. matter. Years later, broke and facing eviction, The Library eventually acquired Anthony’s Johnson refused to sell her sculptures to and Johnson’s papers, but none of the pay off debts, instead inviting the press to busts came to the Library, until now. The watch her destroy the pieces in protest. Anthony sculpture is on loan to the “Shall Desperate, she appeared on TV quiz shows Not Be Denied” exhibition for display in the in an attempt to raise money. When Johnson Jefferson Building — some 126 years after died at 96, newspapers reported her age as Johnson created it. 108 — she had, it turned out, falsified her age —Mark Hartsell 2 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE FAVORITE PLACE SHAWN MILLER U.S. CAPITOL ROTUNDA The historic rotunda (top left) of the U.S. Capitol is an ambitious, soaring structure that combines inspiring architecture and iconic artwork to remind Americans of great events and figures in their shared past. Across the walls, paintings by Trumbull, Brumidi and others illustrate seminal scenes from U.S. history: The Pilgrims embark on the Mayflower, the Founders sign the Declaration of Independence, peace follows a terrible civil war. The dome is crowned with a depiction of George Washington ascending to heaven while, 180 feet below, statues of historic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. line the floor. Among those great men sits a monument (bottom left) dedicated to three great women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, pioneers of the women’s suffrage movement. The National Woman’s Party presented the monument, sculpted by Adelaide Johnson from an eight-ton block of marble, to the Capitol in 1921. The Joint Committee on the Library accepted it on behalf of Congress. The sculpture originally was unveiled in the rotunda but soon after was moved, amid controversy, to the Capitol’s crypt to be displayed alongside others. But, in accordance with a congressional resolution, the sculpture was moved back to the rotunda in 1997. Johnson’s great work remains on view there today, a tribute to the vision, determination and perseverance of this band of sisters. —Mark Hartsell MORE INFORMATION Capitol suffragist monument go.usa.gov/xmDMX JULY/AUGUST 2019 LOC.GOV/LCM 3 © 1993 FRED J. MAROON CURATOR'S PICKS SEVEN DECADES OF STRUGGLE We choose favorite items from the Library’s new exhibition, “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote.” 2 1. FIRST TO VOTE 2. DECLARATION OF Acts of the Council and General SENTIMENTS Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, In July 1848, more than 300 people published in 1784, allowed some assembled in Seneca Falls, New women in that state to vote in local York, for the first women’s rights and state elections. That right didn’t convention in U.S. history. At this last long, however: In 1807, a state meeting, Elizabeth Cady Stanton law restricted voting to “free, white, read her now-famous “Declaration male citizens” at least 21 years old and of Sentiments” protesting women’s worth 50 pounds. Law Library inferior legal status. Stanton’s of Congress original declaration is believed lost, but this rare printed version 1 survives in Library collections. Manuscript Division LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE 3. TAKING IT TO THE STREETS After weeks of controversy, the first national suffrage parade took place in the District of Columbia on March 3, 1913, the day before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Bands, mounted brigades, floats and an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 costumed marchers assembled for a procession through a city brimming with visitors — a historic occasion captured in this illustrated souvenir program. Manuscript Division 3 4. THE STOMACH TUBE 5. TRACKING Denied political prisoner status, Alice RATIFICATION Paul and Rose Winslow began hunger In this notebook, Carrie Chapman Catt strikes in District Jail on Nov. 5, 1917, tracked the progress of ratification of to protest their unjust imprisonment the 19th Amendment by the states. and disproportionate sentences. In Alabama, shown here, ratification Prison officials responded with failed twice in the state Senate and “forcible feeding,” illustrated in this once in the House, despite President British poster, by which a solution of Wilson’s support and assurances from milk and eggs was poured into a tube white suffragists that existing poll taxes forcibly inserted in the nose or throat and literacy tests would limit black of a restrained prisoner. Prints and women’s votes. Manuscript Division 4 Photographs Division MORE INFORMATION “Shall Not Be Denied” exhibition go.usa.gov/xmugZ 5 JULY/AUGUST 2019 LOC.GOV/LCM ONLINE OFFERINGS BAND OF SISTERS ▪ The Library’s The Library holds the papers suffrage-related collections include of the suffrage movement’s the diary of Susan B. Anthony (below) greatest figures. and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s draft of Library collections thoroughly document the “The Woman’s Bible.” decades-long fight for women’s suffrage: Manuscript Division Those collections contain the records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman’s Party as well as the personal papers of some of the movement’s greatest figures. The Library has placed online the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Church Terrell — letters, diaries, writings, clippings and scrapbooks that shed light on the cause and the women behind it. Those papers contain a report on the historic 1848 convention for women’s rights in Seneca Falls; drafts of Terrell’s autobiography, “A Colored Woman in a White World”; and Stanton’s draft of her controversial “The Woman’s Bible.” Anthony’s diaries reveal her thoughts on historic events, such as Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and track the mundane transactions of everyday life: $5 for stamps here, $1.50 for telegrams there.
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