Living It Up with Lenise
Anna Laymon on Leaving a Mark: The Mothers, Daughters, and Monuments That Hold Us
Of the 40 monuments on the National Mall, zero are dedicated to American women's history. Anna Laymon is trying to change that. Anna leads the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation, the organization authorized by Congress to build the first monument honoring women's history on the National Mall — and she's doing it while living right here in Fairhope and commuting to D.C. In this conversation, Anna and Lenise talk about the fight to get this monument approved, the campaign inviting everyday Americans to submit their own ideas for what it should be, and the women — known and unknown — whose stories deserve a place in stone. It's a conversation about legacy. About the grandmothers who never got their names written down. About what it means for a little girl to walk the National Mall one day and finally see herself. Learn more or submit your own Monumental Idea at womensmonument.org .
