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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
The Detroit Free Press wrote in 1914 that "Since suffrage has become popular and more or less fashionable, the different suffrage societies have spent a great deal of their time answering the hundreds of people who are continually sending in suggestions for songs and suffrage trinkets." [24] All women's suffrage song sheets and songsters were ...
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [72] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [73] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [74]
Clara Neal (1870–1936) – English teacher, suffragette and cofounder of the Swansea branch of the Women's Freedom League in 1909 [20] Mary Neal (1860–1944) – social worker and collector of English folk dances; Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (1884–1942) – activist, member of the executive committee of the Women's Freedom League
Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM (21 August 1870 [1] [2] – 23 February 1954 [3] [4]) was a Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist.She was described as the only black/mixed race suffrage campaigner based in Scotland. [5]
Suffragettes were arrested and imprisoned as they fought for voting rights. Photos from 1912 to 1920 chronicle their efforts and eventual victory. 20 vintage photos of suffragettes that will make ...
Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.
“Learning about the Black Friday of 1910 changed my perspective on suffragettes. They weren’t just early feminists, but genuine, certified badasses.”