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Charles Hillman Brough (July 9, 1876 – December 26, 1935) was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921. He signed a bill for women’s suffrage in Arkansas and supported it nationally. [1]
In response to the crisis, Adolphine Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell formed the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). [1]: 195 Terry, then a 75-year-old woman, was a Vassar graduate, the widow of Congressman David D. Terry, [2]: 346 [3] and highly influential in her community.
Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888. [1] Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC). [2] Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881. [1] The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914. [3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC ...
Civic activist for women's issues; a founder and charter member of the UCA Women's Giving Circle [16] Joyce Williams Warren (1949–) 2023 Arkansas’ first black female judge, and multiple other firsts for black women [17] Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000) 2023 American physicist and mathematician [18] Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976 ...
The group was formed partly because of a pro-women's suffrage article written by Mrs. D. D. Terry in the Arkansas Gazette. [18] Minnie Rutherford Fuller, a social activist, was one of the founders of PEL. [23] For Fuller, women's suffrage would help the passage of the kinds of reforms and community improvement that she supported. [23]
Pages in category "Women's suffrage in Arkansas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Outreach Program for Women. Outreach is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services. [1] [2] A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile; in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a non-profit advocacy organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was founded in 1977 by attorney Hillary Rodham [ 6 ] as a non-partisan 501(c)(3) group and continues to be supported by a ...