Sunflower installation at FDR Four Freedoms Park

Celebrating Women’s Equality Day and the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, FDR Four Freedoms Park has installed a 12-foot-by-100-foot "field of sunflowers" on its white granite steps with the words of the 19th Amendment: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex." Sunflowers were chosen for the installation because the sunflower, the state flower of Kansas, is a symbol of the suffrage movement, first adopted by movement leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony during their fight for women’s voting rights in Kansas in 1867. Though the Kansas referendum did not pass, the sunflower lived on in the movement into the 20th century and can be seen on badges and pins from the era. Elizabeth Cady Stanton even used “Sunflower” as her pen name for a Seneca Falls newspaper. The installation, which is a great spot for the 'gram, will be up through September 30.