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Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader; Frances Willard (1839–1898) – leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer; Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League
Gudrun Løchen Drewsen (1867–1946) – Norwegian-born American women's rights activist and painter, promoted women's suffrage in New York City Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1884), the National Association for Women's Suffrage (1885)
Jane Y. McCallum (1877–1957), women's suffrage and Prohibition activist and longest-serving Secretary of State of Texas. [12] Ruth Hanna McCormick (1880–1944), headed the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1913–1915, elected as an at-large member of the US Congress in 1928.
Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856–1940) – activist for women's liberation and women's suffrage Þórunn Jónassen (1850–1922) – active member of the women's movement Katrín Magnússon (1858–1932) – promoter of women's voting rights and women's education
American Woman Suffrage Association activists (15 P) Susan B. Anthony (2 C, 14 P) Members of the Association for the Advancement of Women (11 P) C. Carrie Chapman ...
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
women's suffrage/voting rights leader Frederick Douglass: 1818 1895 United States: abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration Julia Ward Howe: 1818 1910 United States: writer, organizer, suffragette Susan B. Anthony: 1820 1906 United States: Women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration
The woman's suffrage movement, led in the nineteenth century by stalwart women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had its genesis in the abolitionist movement, but by the dawn of the twentieth century, Anthony's goal of universal suffrage was eclipsed by a near-universal racism in the United States.