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Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888. [1] Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC). [2] Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881. [1] The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914. [3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC ...
Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) was an American political and social activist in the state of Arkansas.Terry leveraged her position within the Little Rock community to affect change in causes related to social justice, women's rights, racial equality, housing, and education.
Civic activist for women's issues; a founder and charter member of the UCA Women's Giving Circle [16] Joyce Williams Warren (1949–) 2023 Arkansas’ first black female judge, and multiple other firsts for black women [17] Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000) 2023 American physicist and mathematician [18] Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976 ...
The Prohibition Party of Arkansas endorses women's suffrage. [4] The first women's suffrage parade is held in Little Rock. [5] 1891. Bill for white women's suffrage is introduced in the Arkansas Senate by Senator E.P. Hill. [2] The Arkansas General Assembly passes a law that creates a type of literacy test for voters. [6] 1893
Pat Walker and her husband, Willard Walker started the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, in Springdale, Arkansas in 1986.They financed the charity using funds made from stock investments in Walmart and by 2010 had donated more than $125 million to other charities and organizations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. [4]
In response to the crisis, Adolphine Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell formed the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). [1]: 195 Terry, then a 75-year-old woman, was a Vassar graduate, the widow of Congressman David D. Terry, [2]: 346 [3] and highly influential in her community.
Timeline of women's suffrage in Arkansas This page was last edited on 19 October 2023, at 18:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Women's suffrage work started in the mid 1850s in Maine. Several prominent suffragists spoke in Maine during that time period and in 1857 a women's rights lecture series was established in Ellsworth. [90] [91] The Ellsworth lecture series was started by Ann F. Jarvis Greely, her sister Sarah Jarvis, and Charlotte Hill. [92]