THEY CAME FROM EVERYWHERE TO WIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE USA
FROM HAWAII, PUERTO RICO, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA, COLORADO, ALABAMA, LOUISIANA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA TO WASHINGTON, DC. Can you name these suffragists?
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This Photo by Unknown Author is Jovita Idár 1885-1946 Mexican-American journalist, activist, and suffragist
Source: National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) https://www.womenshistory.org/education- resources/biographies/jovita-idar Isabel Andreu Blanco Aguilar 1887-1948 Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist, suffragist and activist for the rights of women. Ana Roque de Duprey 1853-1938 Puerto Rican educator, suffragist and one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico. Adelina Otero Warren 1881-1965 Women's suffragist, educator, and politician, New Mexico
1925 Photo Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA) Zitkala-Sa (Redbird) Gertrude Simmons Bonnin 1876-1938
A Yankton Dakota Sioux of South Dakota, she worked to achieve Suffrage for Native Americans and women. Native Americans were not considered American citizens and therefore could not vote. The federal government granted the right to vote in 1924 to Native Americans, subject to approval of the state in which they resided. It was not until 1962 that full suffrage was granted in every state.
Zitkala-Ša, having grown her hair back out after her stay at the missionary school, and her violin. Photo by Gertrude Kasebier, 1898. Smithsonian Institution. Marie Bottineau Baldwin 1863-1952 Chippewa lawyer and suffragist Frederick Douglass 1818-1895
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Elizabeth Piper Ensley 1847 – 1919 Educator and an African America suffragist. Born in the Caribbean, she later moved to Colorado, where she was a leader in the Colorado suffrage movement. Mary Church Terrell 1863-1964 National activist for civil rights and suffrage. She was invited to join AAUW In 1946 which resulted in AAUW revising its bylaws to be inclusive of all women with college degrees. At the 1949 National Convention in Seattle, AAUW members voted overwhelmingly (2,168 to 65) to revise the bylaws; result: • the only requirement for membership was to be a woman with a college degree from an AAUW-approved university. • Revision helped clarify that there was one and only one requirement for AAUW membership, reaffirming that women college graduates of all races were eligible for membership. Mary Church Terrell
Amelia Boynton Robinson 1911-2015
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Activist, Selma, Alabama Mary Mcleod Bethune 1815-1955 American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist. Dr. Mabel Ping Hua-Le 1987-1966 Born in Guangzhou, China Suffragist in New York who mobilized the Chinese community in America to support women’s right to vote. Tye Leung Schulze 1887-1972 Civil rights and community activist in San Francisco’s Chinatown, in 1912 she became the first Chinese American woman to cast her vote. Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett 1861-1929
Founded the Hawaiian women’s suffrage movement in 1912.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Minnie_Dowsett%2C_c._1890s_%28cropped%29.jpg Many other women were involved with women’s suffrage, including:
Mary Burnet Talbert, Ohio, graduated from Oberlin college, 1866 – 1923, African American Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Boston, African American 1842-1924, publisher, activist, first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, serve on Boston City Council, and serve as municipal judge Alice Dunbar Nelson, New Orleans, 1875-1935, graduated Cornell, poet, journalist, activist, for civil rights, Lesbian, African American Anna Howard Shaw, white, 1847-1919 Pennsylvania, physician, minister, Boston U, School of Medicine 1886 and Theology 1880, joined efforts of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, often accompanied Alice Paul, tall redhead, fierce, spent more time in prison than any other suffragette, Brookly,n, NY 1879-1966, Matilda Gage, white, Cicero, NY, 1826-98, spent time with Iroquois Indians who inspired her to work for women’s rights, She fought for Native American rights and women as scientists.