National Geographic - USA (2020-08)

Coline
JENKINS
Great-great-granddaughter
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and co-founder of the
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust

also is a town legislator

in Greenwich, Con-

necticut. The trust

she co-founded has

amassed a collection

of suffrage artifacts to

preserve history, edu-

cate the public, and

Suffragist Elizabeth

Cady Stanton always

looked forward; her

descendant Coline

Jenkins does too. A

longtime supporter

of the Equal Rights

Amendment, Jenkins

promote democracy.

She successfully

campaigned to have

statues of Stanton and

fellow activists Susan B.

Anthony and Sojourner

Truth erected in New

York City’s Central Park.

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