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"The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 48 (3): 299– 312. JSTOR 30161501. LWV (1995). "When Women Vote: A Study of the Pensacola Suffragist Movement and the Founding of the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area and Its History" (PDF). The League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area.
Little Entente of Women – umbrella organization for Eastern European women's groups; National Association of Women in Construction – founded 1955 for the advancement of women in construction; National Organization for Women – women's equal rights group; National Women's Register – covers various countries and is a mother's day out ...
Severine Casse (1805–1898) – women's rights activist, successful in fighting for a wife's right to dispose of her earnings; Karen Dahlerup (1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician; Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942) – writer, women's rights activist, member of the Danish Red Stocking Movement
The first women's suffrage effort in Florida was led by Ella C. Chamberlain in the early 1890s. Chamberlain began writing a women's suffrage news column, started a mixed-gender women's suffrage group and organized conventions in Florida. After Chamberlain left Florida in 1897, most women's suffrage activities ceased until around 1912.
See also List of Woman's Clubhouses in Florida on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1922 the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1895, had 180 clubs with about 10,500 members. [8]: 76 Babson Park Woman's Club, Babson Park, FL, NRHP-listed; Bee Ridge Woman's Club, Sarasota, FL, NRHP-listed
First licensed female pilot in Florida, served in the Women's Army Corps in World War II, first female professional guide in Florida [76] Helen Davis (1926–2015) 1998 Florida state legislator, social activist [77] Mattie Belle Davis (1910–2004) 1998 Jurist who helped establish the Florida Association of Women Lawyers [78] Christine Fulwylie ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida wants local elections officials to use data collected by far-right activists, some of whom falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen, to potentially remove people ...
More women's suffrage groups are organized, with the first in the twentieth century being the Equal Franchise League in Jacksonville, Florida in 1912. Additional groups are created around Florida, including a Men's Equal Suffrage League of Florida. Suffragists lobby the Florida Legislature for equal suffrage, hold conventions, and educate ...