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Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist; Eugenia Rasponi (1873–1958) – suffragist, business woman, and early lesbian activist; Ada Sacchi Simonetta (1874–1944) – women's rights activist, founder and leader of women's organizations
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]
Katharine Ludington (1869–1953), one of the founders and last president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin (1897–1988), sociologist and author of The Making of a Southerner [11] and books on workers and child labor. Deirdre Macnab (1955–), women's rights and voting rights activist. She is former ...
Describing women's suffrage as the cornerstone of the women's movement, it was later circulated as a women's rights tract. [ 65 ] Several of the women who played leading roles in the national conventions, especially Stone, Anthony and Stanton, were also leaders in establishing women's suffrage organizations after the Civil War. [ 66 ]
Alice Paul (1885–1977) – one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment, founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of Silent Sentinels and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
The AWSA was initially larger than the NWSA, but it declined in strength during the 1880s. [19] Stanton and Anthony, the leading figures in the NWSA, were more widely known as leaders of the women's suffrage movement during this period and more influential in setting its direction.