Sculptor Phylicia Mann created this striking model for a statue of Inez Milholland on horseback
in the 1913 Washington D.C. suffrage parade. Phylicia's website is www.pmannsculpture.com.
The Inez Milholland Centennial Campaign
Through this special project with the National Women's History Alliance, we honor Inez Milholland, who died over a hundred years ago while campaigning for Votes for Women. Marguerite Kearns, a journalist and grand-daughter of a U.S. suffrage activist, and Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr., author of “Winning the Vote,” are co-chairs of the Inez Miholland Centennial.
We see Inez Milholland's life as a symbol of what tens of thousands of suffragists went through to win civil rights for women. She represents the toil, dedication, and sacrifice that ultimately made the suffrage movement successful. Women finally won passage of the 19th Amendment, often called the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment," on August 26, 1920.
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A Noble Tribute to Inez
Sculptor Phylicia Mann has created the striking model above for a statue of Inez Milholland on horseback in the 1913 Washington D.C. suffrage parade. The artist, from Loveland, Colorado, wrote that, “Voting is very dear to me and in respect of the effort and sacrifice of the women who paved the way for me to have this right, I decided to create a sculpture of Inez Milholland. After reading about her life and death, I was very inspired by her.”
Phylicia created the beautiful maquette, or preliminary model, shown above for a possible public monument of Inez and “would love to have the sculpture featured as a possible memorial.”
“I have invested my own money, time and energy into this piece,” she noted, “with the hope that it will generate interest in the creation of a full size monument in her honor. Not only are women represented by less than 3% in history books, they also make up less than 3% of the public memorials in our nation's public parks and landmarks.”
Phylicia Mann would welcome any support and can be contacted at pmann@mannsculptures.com. Her website is www.pmannsculpture.com. The piece was part of the Loveland Museum art exhibit, VOTE: A Centennial Celebration in February 2020.
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Sculptor Phylicia Mann has created the striking model above for a statue of Inez Milholland on horseback in the 1913 Washington D.C. suffrage parade. The artist, from Loveland, Colorado, wrote that, “Voting is very dear to me and in respect of the effort and sacrifice of the women who paved the way for me to have this right, I decided to create a sculpture of Inez Milholland. After reading about her life and death, I was very inspired by her.”
Phylicia created the beautiful maquette, or preliminary model, shown above for a possible public monument of Inez and “would love to have the sculpture featured as a possible memorial.”
“I have invested my own money, time and energy into this piece,” she noted, “with the hope that it will generate interest in the creation of a full size monument in her honor. Not only are women represented by less than 3% in history books, they also make up less than 3% of the public memorials in our nation's public parks and landmarks.”
Phylicia Mann would welcome any support and can be contacted at pmann@mannsculptures.com. Her website is www.pmannsculpture.com. The piece was part of the Loveland Museum art exhibit, VOTE: A Centennial Celebration in February 2020.
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 Suffrage leader Alice Paul sent women envoys from the east to organize the new women voters in the west before the presidential election in 1916.
The Inez Milholland Centennial aims to educate and engage voters of all ages, particularly women and young adults. Celebrating the life and contributions of this fallen young activist creates the larger opportunity to discover and honor other suffrage activists from all backgrounds in cities and towns throughout the United States. Our project and website will help you find out more about the suffrage movement and patriots who, like Inez, cherished democracy and helped win equal rights for American women. The Inez Miholland Centennial is part of the national 2020 suffrage centennial. We appreciate your involvement with this volunteer effort. The project emphasizes the importance of voting by highlighting suffragists' sacrifices and the death of Inez Miholland as examples of what it took to win votes for women. The campaign provides resources and opportunities that encourage citizens throughout the country to honor Inez and to participate more fully in elections at the local, state, and national levels. The project began in 2016, the centennial of the death of Inez Milholland, our American suffrage martyr. The 30-year-old New York attorney and suffrage leader died in November 1916 of pernicious anemia while campaigning for the 19th amendment in California. This campaign creates a unique opportunity to bring the story of Inez as well as the narrative of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. to the attention of a national audience. Active through three generations from 1848 to 1920, American suffrage activists were the catalysts of the largest grassroots social revolution in our nation’s history. Their nonviolent civil rights movement successfully won the vote for half the adult population. This campaign is one of the countless projects and events recognizing the national centennial celebration of women's suffrage and the 19th Amendment in 2020. Campaign To generate broad interest, the campaign produced a pin-back button with the theme “Honor Inez” that we've distributed by hand, by mail, at conferences, through groups, and on the web. The button comes with an information sheet on Inez and puts wearers in the position of telling Inez’s story and emphasizing the importance of the hard-won right to vote. This person-to-person dialog is at the heart of the campaign. The button, her re-issued biography, "Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland" by Linda J. Lumsden, the book “Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Miholland, Suffrage Martyr,” and other resources are available from the webstore of the National Women’s History Alliance (nwha1980.org). |
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Programs and Resources The Inez Milholland Centennial campaign encourages and recommends effective programs and resources about Inez and other American suffragists. Our website features a growing list of Resources to make information about the suffrage movement more widely available. Easy access to online resources offers local residents and voting activists the information they need to engage friends, acquaintances, students, educators, public officials and others about Inez’s life, the legacy of the suffrage movement, and the importance of voting. Target Audience This campaign focuses directly on women, college students, and young people of voting age who are reachable through focused print and social media as well as person to person. Educators and public officials have also be contacted and encouraged to recognize the centennial and participate. Inez’s home state of New York was a particular focus during its centennial in 2017. The campaign challenges individuals to reevaluate the meaning of voting, particularly at the local level, and to cast their vote as a tribute to Inez and all the suffragists who won the vote for American women. The campaign will continue through 2020, the centennial of women winning the vote. For several years beginning in 1917, suffragists picketed the White House carrying banners with Inez's final plea: "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?" 
Suffragist Alice Turnbull Hopkins picketing outside the White House with Inez's final question on her banner.
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