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Up next, a story about the remarkable woman who gave Lady Liberty her identity,

Georgina Schuyler. Dr. Elizabeth Stone, journalist and professor of literature at Fordham University,

is here to tell the story of how the Statue of Liberty, a gift to America from France,

designed by sculptor Friedrich Bartolte,

came to be the worldwide symbol of freedom and opportunity we know today

through a visionary woman named Georgina Schuyler,

who recognized that a poem written by her friend Emma Lazarus

could change the definition of the monument forever.

Let's get into it.

It's a sonnet. It's called the new colossus because there was an old colossus.

This is the new colossus, and it's a woman.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame with conquering limbs astride from land to land.

Here at our sea wash, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch,

whose flame is the imprisoned lightning and her name, Mother of Exiles.

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