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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¢
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.
In 1960, Lockhart, together with Doris Johnson and Henry Milton Taylor (the Progressive Liberal Party's national party chairman) went to London to argue the case for universal suffrage in the colony of the Bahamas Islands to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Women gained the right to vote, and to sit in the legislature, in the following ...
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]
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.
The suffrage movement was a broad one, made up of women and men with a wide range of views. In terms of diversity, the greatest achievement of the 20th-century woman suffrage movement was its extremely broad class base. [48]