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  2. List of New York (state) suffragists - Wikipedia

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    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. [ 18 ] Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes .

  3. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1910: Emulating the grassroots tactics of labor activists, the Women's Political Union organizes America's first large-scale suffrage parade, which is held in New York City. [3] 1910: Washington grants women the right to vote. [20] 1911: California grants women suffrage. [6] 1911: In New York City, 3,000 people march for women's suffrage. [6]

  4. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In New York in 1912, suffragists organized a twelve-day, 170-mile "Hike to Albany" to deliver suffrage petitions to the new governor. In 1913 the suffragist "Army of the Hudson" marched 250 miles from New York to Washington in sixteen days, gaining national publicity.

  5. List of American suffragists - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Suffragette - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]

  7. Women's suffrage in states of the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the New York Constitutional Convention, held on June 4, 1867, Horace Greeley, the chairman of the committee on Suffrage and an ardent supporter of women's suffrage over the previous 20 years, betrayed the women's movement and submitted a report in favor of removal of property qualification for free black men, but against women's suffrage ...

  8. Woman Suffrage Party - Wikipedia

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    The Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) was a New York city political organization dedicated to women's suffrage. It was founded in New York by Carrie Chapman Catt at the Convention of Disfranchised Women in 1909. [1] WSP called itself "a political union of existing equal suffrage organizations in the City of New York."

  9. Matilda Joslyn Gage - Wikipedia

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    Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought.