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Mt. Rushmore is an all-white-male preserve: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. I'd very much like to see an all-female version. Whom would you vote to honor? You can vote for multiple choices, but since there are only four on Mt. Rushmore, please vote for no more than four. There's no way to enforce this under the CD polling system, but I make it a public poll so that any cheaters will be exposed.
The project could be done right here in Washington State, on Mt. Rainier. It would be a national treasure!
Abigail Adams got one of my votes. She was extremely intelligent and a great counsellor to her husband John Adams, who was more responsible than is commonly realized for the founding of the US. She put up with the frequent absences of John, who was often sent overseas on diplomatic missions. He did not like it, but unlike Thomas Jefferson would never turn down such requests out of his sense of duty.
Abigail was far ahead of her time in racial equality and civil rights. Although they never had slaves, they did have a young black boy who worked for them on their farm. He wanted to attend school, but the school rejected him. Abigail begged to differ, and she wound up getting her way. The boy went to school. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 February 1797
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Originally Posted by Abigail Adams
Master Heath has opend an Evening School to instruct a Number of Apprentices Lads cyphering at a shilling a week, finding their own wood and candles.
James desired that he might go. I told him to go with my compliments to Master Heath and ask him if he would take him. He did and Master Heath returnd for answer that he would. Accordingly James went. After about a week, Neighbour Faxon came in one Evening and requested to speak to me. His Errant was to inform me that if James went to School, it would break up the School for the other Lads refused to go. Pray Mr. Faxon has the Boy misbehaved? If he has let the Master turn him out of school. O no, there was no complaint of that kind, but they did not chuse to go to School with a Black Boy. And why not object to going to meeting because he does Mr. Faxon? Is there not room enough in the School for him to take his seperate forme? Yes. Did these Lads ever object to James playing for them when at a dance? How can they bear to have a Black in the Room with them there? O it is not I that object, or my Boys. It is some others. Pray who are they? Why did not they come themselves? This Mr. Faxon is attacking the principle of Liberty and equality upon the only Ground upon which it ought to be supported, an equality of Rights. The Boy is a Freeman as much as any of the young Men....
Abigail Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
Susan B Anthony
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth can be found way near the bottom of the poll, should be up higher on the list.
List is in no particular order, just what came to my mind. After about #85 I had run out of names, so I went to the 'National Women's Hall of Fame' to get the last few names, including Sojourner Truth, whose name had just slipped my mind. https://www.womenofthehall.org/
I don’t believe in spending government revenues on images or idols.
I agree...but if it could be financed by private donations, and the donors would stay out of the selection (yeah I know, fat chance )...I would pick, assuming from the listed choices:
Barbara Jordan
Sally Ride
Rosa Parks
Margaret Mead
(order = the order in which they appear on the OP's list)
A fifth choice would be my late grandmother, but of course only people who knew her would add that choice.
Mt. Rushmore is an all-white-male preserve: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. I'd very much like to see an all-female version. Whom would you vote to honor? You can vote for multiple choices, but since there are only four on Mt. Rushmore, please vote for no more than four. There's no way to enforce this under the CD polling system, but I make it a public poll so that any cheaters will be exposed.
The project could be done right here in Washington State, on Mt. Rainier. It would be a national treasure!
An active volcano? Seriously?
Then I would say Hillary that way when the mountain blows her top it would emulate Hillary and her violent temper.
Mt. Rushmore is an all-white-male preserve: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. I'd very much like to see an all-female version. Whom would you vote to honor? You can vote for multiple choices, but since there are only four on Mt. Rushmore, please vote for no more than four. There's no way to enforce this under the CD polling system, but I make it a public poll so that any cheaters will be exposed.
The project could be done right here in Washington State, on Mt. Rainier. It would be a national treasure!
This thread is so patronizing. Welp, thanks for participating in "women's history month".
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)...I would pick, assuming from the listed choices:
