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On 10 October 2012, the Post Office, issued six commemorative stamps, titled 50th Anniversary of Women Suffrage, one each bearing the portrait of a notable woman who influenced women's suffrage in the Bahamas in the following denominations: [4] Mary Ingraham – 15¢ Georgianna Symonette (1902–1965) – 25¢ Mabel Walker (1902–1987) – 50¢
Eugenia Louise Lockhart OBE (née Wilson; 17 June 1908 – c. 1986) was a Bahamian suffragist who was the secretary of the Bahamian Women's Suffrage Movement (WSM) and secretary of the Women’s Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party.
In 1950, Walker along with Mary Ingraham, Georgianna Symonette, and Eugenia Lockhart started the Women's Suffrage Movement (WSM) that campaigned for universal adult suffrage. [1] [2] With Walker's connections in the Bahamas Teachers' Union, and the other women's connections in women's clubs, they were able to influence others to join them. [1]
Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (4 April 1902 – 14 May 1965) [1] a Bahamian suffragist, was the founding chairwoman of the Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party [1] and founding member of the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Johnson believed that the scholarship was terminated because she had been active in organizing. She helped found the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Bahamas, [2] and in 1958 both the Bahamian Federation of Labour and the National Council of Women, [6] traveling home intermittently during her studies to work towards enfranchisement. She ...
Returning to the Bahamas, she became involved in the women's suffrage movement in the country, helping gain the vote in 1962. She was the second woman to be appointed as a Senator in the Bahamas and the first woman to be awarded the honorary title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. An annual trophy awarded at the Commonwealth ...
Althea Mortimer (November 20, 1908 – January 1997) was a Bahamian suffragist and educator who worked with the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Progressive Liberal Party to campaign for universal adult suffrage in The Bahamas. [1] [2]
The women's movement united again when the two biggest women's organizations, the Lebanese Women's Union and the Christian Women's Solidarity Association created the Lebanese Council of Women in 1952 to campaign for women's suffrage, a task that finally succeeded, after an intense campaign.