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American women gained the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920. In celebration, banner-waving women marched around the Crypt in 1921 to dedicate a memorial to three pioneer suffragettes: Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Sculptress Adelaide Johnson carved their likenesses from an eight-ton block of Carrara marble. Generations of visitors have since given the impressive statue an irreverent nickname, "Ladies in a Bathtub." Johnson died in 1955 at age 108. more... |
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