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The joint resolution, which created the Virginia Women's Monument Commission, was passed unanimously in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. [9] In 2015, Alsop died at the age of 98, three years before the monument was first opened to the public. [7] From the text of Senate Joint Resolution No. 11:
On October 14, 2019, the Virginia Women’s Monument Commission dedicated seven statues, including one of Mary Draper Ingles. The other six statues are of Anne Burras Laydon, Cockacoeske, Elizabeth Keckly, Laura Copenhaver, Virginia Randolph, and Adele Clark. The monument is sited on Capitol Square grounds in Richmond, Virginia. [40]
She also served as the Executive Director of "Drive Smart" for close to a decade, on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation, on the Virginia State Bar Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (6 years), and on the Women's Monument Commission (which is presently working on the Virginia Women's Monument). [1]
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A petition to replace a Virginia city’s Confederate monument with a statue of rapper Missy Elliott has garnered over 30,000 signatures.
She was a plaintiff in five landmark court cases affecting civil rights, including the 1956 decision that ended school segregation in Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to Washington D.C., the national capital. Her play, "Our Heritage: Slavery to Freedom, 1776–1976," was designated an official bicentennial event by Arlington County.
Zillhardt earned her private pilot, instructors and commercial ratings in 1940, becoming the first woman in Virginia to earn an instrument rating pilot's license. [3] [4] she went on to operate the Woodrum Flying Service flight school and charter service. In 1949 she organized the Roanoke Jaycees All State Air Show. In 1950 she won the 1st ...
She was quoted in an editorial in August, 1914 edition of The American Club Woman Magazine, stating "The best work of women's clubs is done in the awakening of the civic conscious." [3] Caldwell died in 1946. [2] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Caldwell's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of ...