Founder Karen Staser

Moving the Statue

As its first major achievement, the NWHM spearheaded the effort with other women’s organizations to raise $85,000 and generate public support to move this monument of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony out of its 76‑year confinement in the Capitol Crypt to the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. The statue was moved in 1997 and a ceremony occurred June 25, 1997 to celebrate this event.