On October 10th, 2019, 100 years after Arkansas became the twelfth state to ratify the 19th Amendment that granted American women voting rights, a monument celebrating the event was dedicated at the Nineteenth Amendment Plaza in the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden in Riverfront Park.
Titled, Every Word We Utter, the monument depicts the national suffrage leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, alongside Little Rock’s Bernie Babcock, and Josephine Miller Brown.
The base commemorates over a dozen other Arkansas women who fought for women’s rights.
The famous Colorado sculptress Jane DeDecker designed and sculpted the bronze monument based on the concept of a droplet of water that falls into water, creates ripples, rises, and then returns down to it. The droplet symbolizes how suffrage has impacted women’s rights, the next generations- the daughters, on the social movements that came after them.
More statues along the Arkansas River that honor women or were created by sculptress are: the Daisy Gatson Bates Bust by Jane DeDecker, Peace by Lorri Acott, Touch the Sky by Jane DeDecker, Harriet Tubman Statue by Jane DeDecker and Infinity by Kathleen Caricof.
This is one of the many monuments erected throughout the country to commemorate the 100th 19th Amendment ratification. Click here to explore more.
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