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Mabel Malherbe (1879–1964) – suffragist and politician, first woman mayor of Pretoria and first woman to be a member of the South African Parliament Charlotte Maxeke (1871–1939) – religious leader, suffragist and the first black South African woman to graduate from a university, founded the Bantu Women’s League
Women in South Australia achieved the same right and became the first to obtain the right to stand for parliament in 1895. [11] In the United States, women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote in the western territories of Wyoming from 1869 and Utah from 1870, as well as in the states of Colorado and Idaho from 1893 and 1896 respectively ...
Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – suffragist, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918; Flora Murray (1869–1923) – medical pioneer and activist; Frances Murray (1843–1919) – a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer
South Australian suffragist Catherine Helen Spence stood for office in 1897. In a first for the modern world, South Australia granted women the right to stand for Parliament in 1895. [21] Marie Stritt (1855–1928), German suffragist, co-founder of the International Alliance of Women
In 1916 the NAWSA purchased the Woman's Journal and spent a significant amount of money to enhance it. It was renamed Woman Citizen and declared to be the official organ of the NAWSA. [237] Alice Paul began publishing a newspaper called The Suffragist in 1913 when she was still part of the NAWSA.
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily; Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, advocate of women's self-fulfillment; Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister, suffrage speaker. [29] Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party. [30] Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay casting their votes in 1918
Social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women [ 25 ] 1800–1874