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Women's Suffrage Museum Events & Cultural Center

Mission statement for Suffrage Coalition Inc.’s Project: Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Culture Center - Locate and preserve the epic history of the movement that brought democracy to the other half of our citizens. Use accurate, immersive storytelling to inspire future generations to value their rights and faithfully perform their duties as citizens.

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) NY

Matilda Joslyn Gage
  • Assisted Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton with writing the History of Women Suffrage.
  • Protested the Statue of Liberty unveiling saying, “It is the greatest sarcasm of the
  • 19th century to represent liberty as a woman while not one single woman is in possession of political liberty.”
  • Was the inspiration for her son-in-law’s book, The Wizard of Oz (she was the Good Witch)
  • Was honorarily adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk natives. They gave her the name of “She who holds up the sky.”
  • Protested Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1876, and presented the Declaration of Rights of Women in the USA.

Quotes:

“There is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven - that word is liberty.”

 

“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”

 

“While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers