Alabama Suffrage

Little did we know that Alabama would be making some mini-history when the state replaced the statue of a long-forgotten Congressman with one of Helen Keller in Statuary Hall in The U.S. Capitol.



Congress voted in 2000 to let States change either or both of the statues they have in the collection (two each). Alabama is the only one of eleven States that have replaced statues that has replaced the statue of a man with the statue of a woman (even though she was an avowed socialist).



According to The Washington Post,  there are only a handful of women depicted in the statues on display...and in fact only 8 per cent of the statues on public property in the U.S. are of women.



Maybe American women have been too busy raising the men who would be honored with statues to pose for one?