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O U R B A C K P A G E SWilliam Lloyd Garrison joined her“behind the bar” as a protest.London was a landmark for anotherreason: That was where the great“meetings of the minds” took placebetween Mott and Stanton. “Mrs. Mottand I walked home, arm in arm.... Weresolved to hold a convention andform a society to advocate the rightsof women,” said Stanton, who cherishedthe memory.Eight years later, in 1848, came thehistoric Seneca Falls, N.Y., convention,when for the first time womendemanded the full rights of citizenshipin a declaration of their own.Mott was the main speaker at SenecaFalls. She often emphasized thatwomen want “nothing as favor but asright.”Meanwhile, the Mott house inPhiladelphia was a stop on the UndergroundRailroad. Frederick Douglassnever forgot his first sight of LucretiaMott, when he heard her speak inLynn, Mass., and marveled at herpresence and spirit “on every line ofher countenance.” Douglass becameas engaged in the long quest forwomen’s rights as Mott was in abolitionism.Imagine what a bitter irony, then,to be denied suffrage even after theCivil War was won. First things first,men said. Republicans called it “theNegro’s hour.” Wait your turn, ladies,until the next century rolls around.And that is the reason the marblestatue looks unfinished—becausethese women’s work was never done.In fact, even in 1997, it took privatecontributions from citizens—about$80,000—to get the statue, sculptedby Adelaide Johnson in 1920, from theCapitol crypt to the rotunda. Still,Congress did not approve a permanentplace, reserving the right toremove it after a year—and Congresshas still not voted to give the suffragettesa permanent home there.But now that it is there for folksfrom all over the United States toadmire, Lucretia will no longer be thebest-kept secret of Swarthmore College,which she helped found in 1864.Sometimes it seems she’s a secreteven at Swarthmore. Recently I met astudent with a double major inwomen’s studies and religion who hadAdelaide Johnson’s 1920 sculpture of feminist pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton, LucretiaMott, and Susan B. Anthony is now on display in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.Mott took time from her work for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery to help foundthe College. Congress must decide whether to keep the sculpture in the rotunda.never heard of her. But perhaps that’sbecause her portrait no longer hangsin Parrish. Too valuable for such publicdisplay, it has been removed to theconfines of the Friends HistoricalLibrary.That brings me to why I love Lucretiaso much: the wholeness of herworld view. You name it—she wasthere on every front of socialprogress, just the opposite of today’ssingle-issue narrow-mindedness.As one history of Quaker womennotes: “She spoke in Boston onwomen’s rights, visited state legislaturesto ask for stronger actionagainst slavery, toured the South, andlaid the groundwork for a newPhiladelphia charity”—not to mentionAmerican Indian rights and supportingIrish hand-loom workers in a strikefor higher wages.She came, she saw, and shechanged the world in the Quaker way:slowly but surely. ■Jamie Stiehm is a reporter for The BaltimoreSun, where this article originallyappeared. It is reprinted by permission.ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
ALUMNI COLLEGE ABROAD – JUNE 17–29, 1999The Elbe River from Prague to BerlinNext year marks the 10th anniversary of the fall of theBerlin Wall, the most powerful symbol of the Sovietempire’s collapse. Swarthmore alumni, parents, andfriends are invited to mark this milestone with a memorabletrip to a region that’s emerged from decades of ColdWar isolation.The adventure begins in Prague, a medieval city with aunique combination of attractions and ambience. Thenthe river ship MS Clara Schumann will take the AlumniCollege Abroad up the Elbe to Dresden, Meissen, Torgau,Wittenberg, Potsdam, and Berlin, the dynamic capital of areunited Germany.Leading the Swarthmoreans will be two cosmopolitaneconomists, Frederic and Zora Pryor. Newly retired fromthe economics faculty, Fred studied in Berlin early in hiscareer and has lectured at German universities and theCzechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He has publishedbooks and articles on the economies of Eastern Europeand has been a consultant for the Soros Foundation. Zora,a native of Prague, was educated there, in Geneva and inParis, and she earned a doctorate at Harvard. Until thisyear she taught at St. Joseph’sUniversity, specializing in internationaleconomics.This trip will be rich inhistory, in masterpiecesof art and architecture—and in learning how avital part of Europe ismeeting monumentalnew challenges. A brochurewill be available inOctober. Please call(800) 922-3088 for details.Fred and Zora Pryor
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