Florence Luscomb - Boston, MA
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A monument honoring women rights activist Florence Luscomb is located on the hallway wall outside Doric Hall in the Massachusetts State House at 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA.
Waymark Code: WMPG08
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2015
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The State House Women’s Leadership Project has commemorated Florence Luscomb with a monument in the Massachusetts State House. She is one of six women, so honored, that have contributed to the government of the Commonwealth. A life size relief sculpture of Florence Luscomb is presented within a circular opening near the bottom of a rectangular slab of green marble.
The top of the slab has the inscription:
I LEARNED IN SCHOOL that the American
government was founded on the principle that
all men are created equal. But there was no
equality for half the human race - my half.
Women were discriminated against not only in
political freedom, but in their professional and
work opportunities, in their pay, in many of
their laws and social conditions and customs.
And I burned with indignation at this injustice.
Oral history, 1843
Above her sculpture is inscribed:
UNTIL ALL DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WOMEN ARE DONE AWAY WITH
I WON'T SAY THAT I'M SATISFIED
WITH THE CONDITION OF WOMEN
{Sculpture}
FLORENCE LUSCOMB
The lower side frame of the monument has the her date of birth and death: 1887-1985
Florence Hope Luscomb was one of the first women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture. She was a partner in a woman-owned architecture firm before she dedicated herself to the women's suffrage movement, becoming a prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists. She was the Executive Secretary for the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and a member of the Boston chapters of the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NAACP, and ACLU.
The Massachusetts State House is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. All visitors must enter through the General Hooker entrance.