Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology Monument was unveiled at 17 Mildred Street on September 24, 2021, and you have reached it, near the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Three towering statues depict Anarcha Westcott, Betsey, and Lucy—enslaved women who had no agency and who were either bought or rented from their enslavers and were patients of the controversial doctor and "father of gynecology" J. Marion Sims, whose office was nearby. The statues are made from discarded metal objects that the artist collected with public contributions, chosen "to symbolize how Black women have been treated and to demonstrate the beauty in the broken and discarded.
Anarcha rises to 15 feet, the tallest; Lucy stands 12 feet; Betsy, 9 feet. Browder explained she made them so "never again [would] anyone look down on these women. Look closely: two of the figures wear replicas of a slave ship—Anarcha around her legs, Lucy around her waist.
Anarcha's womb, created by Montgomery artist Deborah Shedrick, is discarded. Notice the scale and the materials of the three figures, and the nearby National Memorial for Peace and Justice.