This year, the Four Freedoms Park summer celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. But there’s even more to enjoy with women winning the right to vote.
A photo essay by David Stone
A hundred years later, it’s mind-boggling that half the population fought for decades before winning the right to vote. But in truth, that forced a sharp change in direction after millennia of discrimination.
Four Freedoms Park Summer 2020: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy joins the League of Women Voters and the New York Historical Society in this tribute.
The historic context of the park makes the perfect backdrop for a celebration of rights too long denied.
FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech, his 1941 State of the Union, is a foundation of modern democracy.
Four Freedoms won a reputation as New York’s most serene location. A place for meditation. A home for appreciation.
Visitors walk shady paths with sweeping views, tidal waters creating a cushion between the park and the busy city.
But this summer, 2020, the park’s pleasures are enhanced by the joys of liberation. A Four Freedoms Park Summer celebration.
A community of support makes its mark.
New York’s history is America’s history.
Families freer to love in peace and equality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the charge that saved America from tyranny. Without the fighting spirit of the New Deal and World War II, the 19th Amendment would be a footnote in world history.
Powering appreciation and imagination with visions of the modern world.
Past meets future in graceful serenity.
Susan Rosenthal, a Sacrificial Lamb?*
After Susan Rosenthal was fired, David Kraut would talk about almost anything except Susan. This was unusual because David could discuss a subject long after everyone else had exhausted both the subject and the available oxygen. When her name entered the conversation, however, he became careful. At first I mistook that restraint for discretion; later, I began to recognize guilt.
