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Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club. [9] Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created in February 1912. [10] Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA), founded in 1885 in Painesville. [11] Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), first met in Ravenna on May 25, 1853. [12] Political Equality Club of Lima. [13] Shelby Equal Franchise Association ...
Pages in category "Suffragists from Ohio" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.
The Huffington Post reached out to historians across the country to create a list of women who deserve more recognition for their accomplishments. Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work.
Suffragists from Ohio (41 P) Pages in category "Women's suffrage in Ohio" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Amelie Veiller Van Norman (1844–1920) – educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) – crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the ...
Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article.